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-

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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

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

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792 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV that under the Dominion Constitution she will ultimately lose all her representation! It is provided that the popula- tion in those states shall not include persons of races who are restricted from exercising the franchise for the more numerous House in each state, or aboriginals (s. 127), and this will affect the population of Western Australia and Queensland, which since 19072 and 19052 have excluded Asiatics and other aboriginals from the franchise for that House. The original numbers were provided for in the Constitution Act giving to New South Wales twenty-six, Victoria twenty-three, Queensland nine, South Australia seven, Western Australia five, and Tasmania five apiece. The numbers have been since changed by adding one to New South Wales and depriving Victoria of a member, by Act No. 11 of 1905. Electoral matters and the division of the states are regulated by the Electoral Act, 1902-9, and the reports of the Commissions under it. Efforts to make the states control the franchise were decisively rejected in the passing of the constitution. The provisions of the Act which affect the autonomy of the states rest first in the creation of the new body to represent all Australia. The creation alone must evidently be claimed to be more than a mere creation of a new agency ; it is the calling into being of an agency to speak authoritatively for Australia whether as concerns the outside world and foreign powers, or as concerns the Empire as a whole. These two fundamental principles owe their application to the Imperial Government and have not yet won general acceptance in Australia itself, where the State Governments in differing degrees show clearly that they tend to regard the Common- wealth as rather a new entity beside the old than a new entity which includes the old and in some ways destroys the individuality of the old.* It is significant that the Act itself says little of this: it contains in the preamble an 1 See 33 8. C. R. 575; [1905] A. C. 37. Cf. Quick and Garran, op. cit.. pp. 446 seq. * Act No. 27 of that year. # Act No. 1 of that year. ¢ (Cf. Harrison Moore, op. cit., pp. 295 seq.

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