HSTY1089 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Westminster System, Social Equality, Egalitarianism
18 Jul 2018
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Similarities with england: shared loss in wars, shared monarch, shared ethnic heritage, shared language and culture, shared economy: exporting wool primarily, and later minerals. Late 19th c communications networks such as the daily telegraph allowed communication across the colony. Division among the irish catholic community and the anglican english community. The later who were often the ruling class, officers and governmental officials being anglican. There hasn"t been a great need to choose between an australian identity and british heritage and monarchy. One argument says we have a clear dichotomy between identities and need to abolish it. Other argument says we have always had shared british roots and can"t abandon them. Parliament and legal system based upon the westminster system. Anti-transportation movement in the 1840s and 50s to end the cycle of transportation, to end convicts being sent to australia. The movement felt that with the end of convictism parliamentary rights would arise.
