Rise of Australia

Chapter 154 Naval Parade

"My beloved people, 1902 has been a big year for Australia. We opened a short railway, built more industrial estates and factories, expanded our army and navy, and even For the first time, we exported our mineral resources and various weapons and equipment, including warships." After the cheers of the crowd stopped again, Arthur began his speech.

"In terms of people's livelihood, we have built more hospitals and schools, ensuring more people's medical and educational foundations. At the same time, our various construction plans have also created a large number of jobs. More than 1902 Australians have found suitable employment. From the beginning of 1902 to the end of [-], our per capita annual income increased by a full two pounds, reaching a level of more than twelve pounds. It has raised a full four pounds, so that everyone's living standards have been guaranteed to a certain extent." Arthur said proudly.

Although this figure cannot be compared with European countries, it has improved a lot compared with Australia's own situation.

As New Zealand, which has a very similar background to Australia and a similar geographical location, its per capita annual income has been maintained at around [-] pounds, which has been overtaken by Australia.

Speaking of this, the applause and cheers from the audience could no longer be stopped, and people began to shout again, expressing their joy.

After waiting quietly for a while, Arthur continued: "Today, I am very glad to be able to stand with everyone and watch Australia's second military parade since the founding of the country, and it is also the first military parade of the Navy."

"As a huge island country, the navy is extremely important to Australia. For various reasons, Australia has no battleships for the time being. But please rest assured that this situation is only temporary and must be changed. The Australian navy I imagine is With a world-class navy with many powerful fleets of battleships, we are still a long way from this goal, but I am confident and firmly believe that Australia can achieve it." Arthur said with a smile.

Although Australia has no expansion plans for battleships in a short period of time, the comfort of appropriateness is still necessary.

After all, we can't say anything about the dreadnoughts. Arthur can't tell everyone mysteriously that a powerful warship will be born in the next few years that will completely make the current battleships obsolete!

Under such a premise, it is the best choice not to expand the navy in battleships, but also to keep people hopeful for the navy.

Hearing Arthur's vision for the future of the Australian Navy, most Australians still have hope.

After all, it is well known that Australia has mastered the construction technology of battleships. In the eyes of many Australians, the reason why Australia has not started the construction plan of battleships is only because the economy cannot keep up for the time being.

When Australia's economic construction develops, the government will naturally start the construction of battleships, and Australia's navy is world-class.

In the stands, some officials from New Zealand also showed envy.Like the previous military parade, these people were all New Zealand colonial government officials who came to Australia to participate in the Australian military parade after invitation.

Since Arthur established the Political Council in New Zealand and won the allegiance of the Coalition Party, the ties between New Zealand and Australia have become closer. Not only some New Zealanders chose to come to Australia to work, but also the relationship between the New Zealand colonial government and the principality government of Australia. The economic exchanges among them also began to gradually become active.

This situation was welcome to Arthur.The exchanges between Australia and New Zealand are getting smoother, and the merger between Australia and New Zealand will be smoother in the future.

The reason why some New Zealanders come to Australia to work is not only that there are not enough jobs in New Zealand, but also that the salary of new jobs in Australia greatly exceeds the per capita annual income of New Zealand, and the welfare policies are relatively good. There will be wage deductions.

In addition, New Zealand and Australia can be regarded as having the same origin, the same culture, the same language, and even the same origin, so many New Zealanders do not reject going to Australia.

Another point is that the distance between New Zealand and Australia is not far.At present, the only way of communication between the two regions is by sea, which takes about two to three days.

How long has it been?Actually not long.

For those New Zealanders who come to Australia for work, they can also take leave at any time and return to New Zealand in two or three days.

Because Arthur has specifically ordered the governments on both sides, neither Australia nor New Zealand will stop these people traveling between the two regions.

According to the 1902 report, the economic exchange between New Zealand and Australia almost tripled in 1902, and the total import and export trade between Australia and New Zealand reached more than 4 pounds.

Of course, a large part of this is Australian exports to New Zealand.Some of Australia's initial industrial products flowed into New Zealand and occupied part of the New Zealand market.

New Zealand is more developed in agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as some mineral resources.

But these Australia are not scarce, and are even very rich resources for export.This has also led to a trade deficit between Australia and New Zealand, almost all of which New Zealand imports from Australia.

This is also good news for Australia. The more New Zealand's economy depends on Australia, the closer the two regions will be integrated in the future.

Officials from the New Zealand colonial government were invited to the two consecutive military parades. This is exactly the intention. Only by letting these people clearly see the changes in Australia will they imagine that such changes will also happen in New Zealand.

In order to better spread what they have seen to New Zealand, the factions of the officials invited to each military parade are different.

These officials can basically be divided into four factions, some are the original colonial government officials, there are officials belonging to the two parties of the New Zealand Labor Party and the Coalition Party, and officials belonging to the military forces.

What Arthur basically has now are officials of the New Zealand colonial government and officials affiliated to the Coalition Party.

With the supervision of officials from these two factions, it is believed that what these New Zealand officials saw and heard could be spread the next day after they returned to New Zealand.

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