Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

Collection:: Economics Books

788 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV of Australia in matters affecting the interpretation of the constitution of the Commonwealth or a state save where the public interests of some other part of Her Majesty’s Dominion were concerned. The proposal was unsatisfactory, and the retention of the full right of appeal or of appeal at the instance of the executive government was suggested instead. An application by the Secretary of State to the Chief Justices of the Colonies resulted in their pressing the desire for the retention of the appeal, while a conference of Premiers, while deprecating the change, thought change better than post- ponement of the Bill. Moreover, Queensland separated itself from the other Colonies and deprecated the exact wording of the Bill. A compromise was arranged limiting the withdrawal of appeal to cases concerning the relations inter se of the Commonwealth and the States, or of the several states, and permitting the High Court to allow an appeal in such cases. The Bill then became law as the Act 63 & 64 Vict. c. 12. At the urgent request on April 27 of Mr. Chamberlain, Western Australia hastened to join, a referendum giving 44,800 for to 19,691 against. The federation took effect from January 1, 1901, the Governor-General being appointed in September 1900, after the issue of the proclamation of September 17, fixing the date of the establishment of the federation as January 1, 1901. The slow birth of the Commonwealth is indeed remarkable. The Colonies seemed destined for union : so much was shared in common, there were so few serious distinctions between the peoples, and religious animosity had no place at all in the Colonies. But defence was not urgent, and the local interests in trade tended to develop jealousies, of which the Queensland Railway Border Tax Act, 1893, preserves in its preamble a noteworthy example ; it recites the moneys spent by the Government of the Colony on its railways and on its establishing a steamer service with Great Britain, and then proceeds to denounce the other Colonies for adopting a differential tariff in railway rates in order to divert traffic from Queensland lines, and it enacted a tax of £2 10s. a ton on all produce conveyed across the border,

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