Download or read book Australia s Governors General written by Brian Carroll and published by Rosenberg Pub Pty Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Australia's Governors-General parallels our gradual disengagement from Britain. Until 1926, the Governor-General was appointed by the monarch. Sir Isaac Isaacs became the first Australian-born Governor-General, appointed by Australian Prime Minister, James Scullin.
Download or read book The Governor General Is Australia s Head of State written by Sir David Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this well researched and authoritive booklet, Sir David Smith former Official Secretary to five Governors-General, puts forward the irrefutable argument that the Governor General is Australia's Head of State.
Download or read book Why Do We Have a Governor General written by Peter Turner and published by Redback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh new approach to the subject of how Australian society is structured and governed, this series explains some of the key roles in Australian civic life, from that of ordinary citizens to those of Members of Parliament, the Prime Minister and Governor-General. The titles explain the rights, responsibilities and privileges of individuals in each social position, and the relationships that exist between the Prime Minister, the Governor-General, Members of Parliament and private citizens. An excellent resource for civic studies, the series provides a comprehensive introduction to the law-making process, and insight into how the government and wider Australian society function.
Download or read book The Office of Governor General written by Sir Paul Hasluck and published by Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of November 1975 sparked off lively debate as to what the Governor-General does. The real point at issue in that controversy was not whether a Governor-General has the power to dismiss a Prime Minister. The fact that the power was exercised is proof that the power exists. The question to be asked is whether the Govenor-General was justified by the facts as he saw and interpreted them, and, if he were justified, whether he was wise to use the power. There is a difference between an extreme situation and a customary action. The controversy over the dismissal of a Prime Minister concentrated attention on one aspect, but in this lucid essay Sir Paul Hasluck sets out the wide range of the Governor-General's duties and the place of office in the whole structure of Australian government.
Download or read book Australia s Governors General written by Brian Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Australia's Governors-General parallels our gradual disengagement from Britain. Until 1926, the Governor-General was appointed by the monarch. Sir Isaac Isaacs became the first Australian-born Governor-General, appointed by Australian Prime Minister, James Scullin.
Download or read book Dear Quentin written by Quentin Bryce and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even more letters from every corner of the country. Generous, witty and always heartfelt, her letter-writing skills were honed at boarding school, from where she would write to her parents every Sunday. Dear Quentin is a rich collection of the letters the Governor-General wrote and received during her six-year term to prime ministers Rudd and Gillard, VC Mark Donaldson, pals Anne Summers and Wendy McCarthy, Indigenous elders, war vets, Girl Guides, grandchildren, as well as the proud owner of a calf called Quentin. Royalties from this book will be donated to Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, making a real difference to child health through world-leading research and disease prevention.
Download or read book Australian Governors and Governors general written by Margaret Alberts and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Head of State written by David Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the thirtieth anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, the man who read the proclamation dissolving parliament, Sir David Smith, makes a powerful case about the Australian Constitution. Our founding fathers made the Governor-General, not the Queen, our head of state.
Download or read book Premiers written by Nicolas Brasch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Governor General in Australia 1901 1927 written by Christopher Cunneen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governors General written by Nicolas Brasch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governors and Governors general written by Brian Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory to the Office of the Governor General the Parliament the Executive Government the Judiciary Departments and Authorities written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book FitzRoy Beyond the Rumours written by Lyn M. Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography. Rumours still exist regarding Governor FitzRoy - are they justified? Here the author takes a personal look at FitzRoy, from childhood, school at Harrow to the battlefields of the Peninsular War and Waterloo. The reader follows FitzRoy through his various postings before his arrival in NSW. His administration in the colony (1846 - 1855) came at a significant period in its history, land and squatters' rights issues; gold. It was also the era of prominent political figures such as Wentworth, Parkes and Lang.
Download or read book The Palace Letters written by Professor Jenny Hocking and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen potentially forever. This ruse has furthered the fiction that the queen and the Palace had no warning of or role in Kerr's actions. In the face of this, Professor Jenny Hocking embarked on a four-year legal battle to force the Archives to release the letters. In 2015, she mounted a crowd-funded campaign, securing a stellar pro bono team that took her case all the way to the High Court of Australia. Now, drawing on never-before-published material from Kerr's archives and her submissions to the court, Hocking traces the collusion and deception behind the dismissal, and charts the private role of High Court judges, the queen's private secretary, and the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, in Kerr's actions, and the prior knowledge of the queen and Prince Charles. Hocking also reveals the obstruction, intrigue, and duplicity she faced, raising disturbing questions about the role of the National Archives in preventing access to its own historical material and in enforcing royal secrecy over its documents.
Download or read book What Does it Mean to Be the Governor General of Australia written by Jaclyn Crupi and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information book for younger readers, including primary and junior secondary students. Part of the 'What Does it Mean to Be' series, which promotes civic education in Australia. Explores the functions and duties of the Governor General of Australia. Includes information on why we have a Governor General, constitutional and ceremonial duties, signing the bills, the Governor General's residence, and the possibility of a Republic. Includes a profile of Governor General Michael Jeffery, full-colour photographs, table of contents, find out more section, glossary and index. Other books in the series are 'What Does it Mean to Be...Prime Minister of Australia' and 'What Does it Mean to Be...A Member of the Australian Parliament'.
