GOVT3987 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ben Chifley, Constitutional Monarchy, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft
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The developmental settler-state: colonial liberal-socialism: the main types of inhabitants consisted of those sent by britain to administer or defend the country. Government of ficials believed in the use of state guarantees and collective resources (taxes, public borrowing and regulation. State existed to protect the main social classes and dev the economy. State administrators continu- ally interposed themselves between capital and labour. Bringing something better to the people, better standards of living, greater happiness to the mass of the people. Governments insisted that workers had to be represented by unions. The refrain from westminster; the development of a social liberal. In transplanting such institutions, they adopted many of the nineteenth-century british conventions and under- standings of parliamentary gradualism. Accordingly, the constitution attached many formal functions to the. Governor-general as the representative of the constitutional monarch. The territorial and jurisdictional divide allows for a certain creative tension to underlay federalism.