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

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808 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART Iv arrived at without disregarding the scheme of Commonwealth legislation or the fundamental principles on which the Colonial Conference was based. The decision of the Secre- tary of State was not accepted by the States Governments, but the question could not be further pressed in view of the decision of the Imperial Government; the Imperial Con- ference objected apparently to allowing their presence, and the States Premiers were not invited in 1910-1. A good deal of misunderstanding, however, arose out of the constitution of a conference secretariat by Lord Elgin, as the result of the Conference of 1907; it was thought in Australia that some inroad on the powers of the states was contemplated, but a protest from New South Wales brought so emphatic a disclaimer from the Secretary of State that the matter dropped. The secretariat indeed was not concerned directly with the states at all, but with the Commonwealth and other Dominions represented in the Imperial Conference. The question of the mode of communication has also been hotly contested with regard to the matter of honours, the States Governments claiming that their recommendations should not be known to the Governor-General, and still less to the Commonwealth Government, while on the other hand, the Secretary of State has insisted on the position of the Governor-General as representing the whole of Australia. For the time being a compromise has been reached by it being arranged that the recommendations of the States Governments and the States Governors are submitted to the Governor-General for his personal information only. This question is only part of a larger discussion as to the communication of dispatches to and from States Governors to the Governor-General, a subject on which no final settle- ment has vet been reached.2 + Especially at the Sydney Conference of Premiers in 1906 ; see Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of Australia,® p. 350. * State Governors send copies to the Governor-General of dispatches touching on federal interests, for his personal information and that of his ministers (Moore, loc. cit), and copies are sent to him from the Colonial

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