The people's choice : electoral politics in colonial New South Wales / edited by Michael Hogan, Lesley Muir and Hilary Golder.
- Title
- The people's choice : electoral politics in colonial New South Wales / edited by Michael Hogan, Lesley Muir and Hilary Golder.
- Published by
- Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xiv, 465 p. : ill., ports.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- From the coming of responsible government in 1856 to the formation of the Australian Federation in 1901. There are chapters on each of the elections for the Legislative Assembly, where the talents and failings of political giants like Henry Parkes, Charles Cowper, John Robertson, George Reid and Edmund Barton are on display. Recurrent themes are attempts to resolve the land question, the creation of a strong system of public schooling, and problems of taxation so that the colony could fund its railways, roads and schools. Towards the end of the century the questions of federation and labour conditions come to occupy centre stage. There is also a chapter on the virtually unchronicled elections of 1843, 1848 and 1851 for the Legislative Council which prepared the way for responsible government, as well as thematic chapters on the land question and ways that voting was conducted in a different era. --Publishers website.
- Series statement
- NSW state election series
- Uniform title
- New South Wales state election series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Contents
- Land Question / Michael Hogan -- Voting in Colonial New South Wales / Michael Hogan and Lesley Muir -- Blended Legislative Council Elections / Michael Hogan -- 1856 / Michael Hogan -- 1858 and 1859 / David Clune -- 1860 / Trevor McMinn -- 1864-65 / Hilary Golder -- 1869-70 / Hilary Golder -- 1872 / Hilary Golder -- 1874-75 / Lesley Muir -- 1877 / Lesley Muir -- 1880 / Lesley Muir -- 1882 / Lesley Muir -- 1885 / Lesley Muir -- 1887 / Lesley Muir --1889 / Michael Hogan -- 1891 / Michael Hogan and Ken Turner -- 1894 / Michael Hogan and Ken Turner -- 1895 / Michael Hogan and Ken Turner -- 1898 / Michael Hogan and Ken Turner.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 445-448..
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