A History of Australia, Volume 5Cambridge University Press, 1981 - Australia |
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Page 71
... Representatives . A strong Senate , a Senate possessing equal powers with the House of Representatives , he argued , was the essential condition of accepting federation . The minority could check and restrain the majority : the less ...
... Representatives . A strong Senate , a Senate possessing equal powers with the House of Representatives , he argued , was the essential condition of accepting federation . The minority could check and restrain the majority : the less ...
Page 365
... Representatives , the people's house , as the source of all just power in Australia , and the Senate as a states ' house . Labor was talking of the Senate as a house enjoying equal powers with the House of Representatives except on ...
... Representatives , the people's house , as the source of all just power in Australia , and the Senate as a states ' house . Labor was talking of the Senate as a house enjoying equal powers with the House of Representatives except on ...
Page 367
... Representatives on the grounds that the almost equal numbers of the two parties in the House of Representatives and the small number supporting the government in the Senate rendered it impossible to manage the public business ...
... Representatives on the grounds that the almost equal numbers of the two parties in the House of Representatives and the small number supporting the government in the Senate rendered it impossible to manage the public business ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
Copyright | |
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