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The choice of the speaker in Australian parliaments
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The choice of the speaker in Australian parliaments

G. Bolton
Parliamentary Affairs, Vol.15(3), pp.355-364
1962
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Abstract

Parliamentary traditions nurtured at Westminster, even the most respected of them, have not always survived transportation overseas. The legislature s o f Canada, Australia and New Zealand - to go no further than those members of the Commonwealth classed by Mr. Menzies as the "Crown Dominions " - in a century of self government have modified not a few of the practices and attitude s taken for granted in the British House of Commons . One such shift in outlook has affected the office of Speaker…

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