A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... Commonwealth.45 On the constitutional clauses the liberals won a few marginal victories : they persuaded the conservatives to grant to the Commonwealth legislative power over invalid and old age pensions . They also persuaded the ...
... Commonwealth.45 On the constitutional clauses the liberals won a few marginal victories : they persuaded the conservatives to grant to the Commonwealth legislative power over invalid and old age pensions . They also persuaded the ...
Page 167
... Commonwealth , and the Parliament of the Commonwealth to sit at Melbourne until it met at the new seat of government ; no alteration of the boundaries of a state to occur without the approval of the majority of the members of the state ...
... Commonwealth , and the Parliament of the Commonwealth to sit at Melbourne until it met at the new seat of government ; no alteration of the boundaries of a state to occur without the approval of the majority of the members of the state ...
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... Commonwealth and the states rather than any abstract ideas on economics . The Common- wealth must have a revenue to enable it to return the surplus to the states . That was the case for a revenue tariff . They were a government of ...
... Commonwealth and the states rather than any abstract ideas on economics . The Common- wealth must have a revenue to enable it to return the surplus to the states . That was the case for a revenue tariff . They were a government of ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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