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

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Title:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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626 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART IIL § 2. SOUTH AUSTRALIA The relations between the two Houses in South Australia have been as unsatisfactory as in Victoria : it would be impossible to say that they had been more unsatisfactory, and it is true that the disputes have not resulted in such hopeless deadlocks as has been the case in the sister Colony. But that is due to the democratic character of the South Australian people, a fact which can be traced to the origin of the Colony as a home of free settlers, and to its immunity from the influence on the one hand of the criminal population, and on the other from the presence of Government officials and their friends, who secured to themselves, at the cost of the commonwealth, large grants of land. In financial matters, as the Constitution had carefully left the matter totally undetermined beyond providing for the origination of such Bills in the Lower House, it was only found possible to work at all by an informal arrangement between the two Houses, the effect of which was that the Legislative Council would pass the ordinary annual estimates without insisting on amending them, but it would have a right to suggest amendments on every and any other proposal to raise money or warrant expenditure, and to ask for a conference on the estimates, and that matters beyond the ordinary annual estimates must be sent on separately, so that the Council could have an opportunity of expressing its opinion with regard to these measures! The Council can freely amend any clause of any measure which is not a clause raising money or warranting expenditure. It would be idle to deny that the Council was entitled to adopt this position. The idea that an elective Upper House should conform with the principles adopted by a nominated Upper House like the House of Lords, although * Cf. Parl. Proc., 1857-8, i, passim ; ii, Nos. 71 and 101 ; Debates, pp. 340-70, 442, 456. In 1864 the Council again reasserted its position; in 1876 it caused the withdrawal of certain items from a Loan Bill, and in 1877 defeated the Government of the day and insisted on a proposal to build new Houses of Parliament being introduced separately ; soe Parl. Proc., 1877, i, passim. Cf. Baker, Constitution of South Australia, pp. xii-xiv ; Rusden, Australia, iii. 476-9. A land tax and an increment tax were rejected in 1910.

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