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 V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter II. Imperial control over the inernal affairs of the dominions

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1052 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [paRTYV land revenues were handed over a half used to be applied by the Imperial Government towards the cost of immigra- tion, and stress is laid upon the danger to the Empire and to the Commonwealth alike of the presence of a vast territory which is quite undefended against any serious attack, as the forces available, however well trained, would be unable to protect it if any enemy could get control of the sea. Nor indeed is there any doubt that in population lies the strength of nations, or that a completely trained Australian population would yet be useless if the sea fell under the command of another nation. On the other hand, the facts are very simple. It was contemplated, in the negotiations which led up to the transfer of Western Australia to responsible government, that the northern part of the territory should be put apart and the proceeds of the land there kept for the benefit of a future new colony.! But as the Governor pointed out, the proceeds were inadequate to cover the cost of such administration as there was, and therefore there could be no saving them for a future colony. In fact the lands were the only source from which revenues for the development of the colony could obviously be obtained, and if a colony had not been granted the lands it would have required, as the Canadian Provinces which had no lands required, grants from the central exchequer to keep them going. But such grants were ob- viously, as has been time after time asserted in the most emphatic terms by the Imperial Government, entirely opposed to the principle of the existence of self-government, and therefore self-government could not have been accorded without giving the control of the land revenue which the Crown possessed. And again, it is very doubtful whether it would ever have been possible to manage Colonial land successfully, even had the question of revenue come in, by means of a Government which was not the Government for local matters of the Colony. In a Colony it is difficult to imagine effective legislation which did not touch land interests, and if land were to be regulated the Imperial ! Parl. Pap., C. 5743, 5752, 5919, and 5919 1.

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