Rise of Australia

Chapter 9 The First Meeting

A ray of morning sun shone through the leaves outside the window on the glass of the room, and then reflected in Arthur's eyes.

Unable to adapt, Arthur stretched out his hand to try to cover the naughty light, but found that he couldn't completely cover it anyway.

After a while, Arthur slowly opened his eyes, his brain turned on suddenly, and he sat up suddenly, looking at the wall clock on the wall, it was already past seven o'clock in the morning.

"Oops, it's going to be eight o'clock soon, and I hope to catch up with the meeting." Arthur said to himself, but his hands didn't stop, and he hurriedly put on his clothes.

According to tradition, someone should be responsible for Arthur's daily life, but Arthur is really not used to the arrogance of other people's clothes, so he decided to do it himself.

After finally washing up, it has been more than ten minutes since I went out.

After leaving the door, the two guards at the door immediately saluted Arthur respectfully: "Good morning, Your Highness!"

"Morning, the prime ministers probably didn't come to see me, did they?" Arthur asked.

Today is April 4, the third day after Arthur and his party arrived in Australia.

According to the agreement between Arthur and several prime ministers, a preliminary meeting on the detailed system of the Principality of Australia will be held at [-] o'clock this morning, so that the country can be better improved.

It was nearly eight o'clock now, and Arthur didn't want to be late for the first meeting.

Although as a monarch, no one would say anything if Arthur was late for the meeting, but after all, he was new here, so he still had to make a good impression on his subordinates and all the people.

"No, Your Highness." The guard responded.

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Arthur breathed a sigh of relief and went downstairs to the meeting room.

In the two days since he came to Australia, Arthur took a short walk around the government building and around Sydney.

The first impression that Australia or New South Wales gave Arthur was traditional and backward.

Because the main source of income is mining and agriculture, and a considerable part of the income was sent to the British mainland, which also led to the poor economic conditions of several colonies, and the income of the colonists was not high.

Generally speaking, Australia is still in the stage of waiting for prosperity, but now that it is independent as a new principality, the economic situation is bound to be much better than before.

Entering the meeting room, the six prime ministers have been waiting for a long time.

"Good morning, Your Highness." Everyone saluted.

"Well, everyone, let's not talk much, let's start." Arthur took the main seat, and then said.

"Your Highness, although under the order of Her Majesty, Australia has become a unified and independent country in name. But in fact, as of now, in addition to the unity in name, our system is still in accordance with the previous six It was carried out in the large colony. I think we need to change the system of the colony first. I suggest that the six colonies be turned into six autonomous states, and the capital votes to decide. And we can form a unified federal government based on these six autonomous states. We prime ministers will become the governors of the new autonomous states, and we will be responsible to Your Royal Highness." New South Wales Prime Minister Evan said.

Because he once presided over the drafting of the Federal Council Act, Prime Minister Evan is still very clear about the current status of Australia.

Australia's biggest problem now is that the major colonies are doing their own thing and not interfering with each other.Although Australia has been unified into one country in name, it is actually more like six independent countries.

"About this matter, do the other prime ministers have any opinions?" Arthur turned to look at the others and asked with a smile.

Prime Minister Evan's proposal is basically similar to the original process of Australia in history, which is to establish a federal government formed by autonomous states.

The advantage of doing this is that a unified federal government can be established with minimal changes, and the powers in the hands of the prime ministers of the colonies have not changed, but they have become governors.

Perhaps the major colonies of the previous Federal Council had reached a consensus, so no prime minister had any other opinions at this time.

"I think it is very necessary to establish a unified government in the shortest possible time." Seeing that no one spoke, Arthur said with a smile: "But the government system still needs to be carefully considered."

"In my opinion, the previous Australia was composed of your six major colonies, and the colonies were independent and did not interfere with each other. But now that a unified country has been formed, I think the title of colony should indeed be abolished." Arthur looked Looking at Prime Minister Evan, he said with a smile: "Prime Minister Evan's proposal is very good. I agree with changing the six colonies to six states, with the same name and capital, but unified responsibility to the new national government."

"As for whether the newly established states should be given autonomy, I think that each state only needs to be responsible for the state affairs within the state, and defense and other things should be taken care of by a unified national government. How do you feel?" Arthur looked at the crowd with a smile.

"Your Highness, I don't know how the new government election system is? Is it modeled after the British Empire's government system?" Prime Minister Evan asked tentatively.

If we talk about the representative of the constitutional monarchy, then the British Empire definitely has a place.

As one of the first countries to start a constitutional monarchy, the British Empire quickly became the empire on which the sun never sets to dominate the world by virtue of the Industrial Revolution.

Among them, the advanced system of the British Empire also has a lot of credit, which is why Prime Minister Evan asked so.

"It cannot be denied that the system of the British Empire is indeed very advanced. But I think that every country has its own national conditions, and we cannot copy them all. But there are many aspects that can be used for reference. I plan to set up a House of Commons, and members of the House of Commons It is elected by each state, and the quota is allocated according to the proportion of the number of people." Arthur said with a smile: "The House of Lords is elected by members of the royal family and my designees, as well as the House of Commons. The House of Commons is responsible for proposing laws, electing cabinet members, and amending laws, etc. The House of Lords is responsible for reviewing laws proposed by the House of Commons, reviewing elected cabinet members, supervising officials, impeaching officials, amending the constitution, etc. The House of Lords and House of Representatives will be one of the most important administrative institutions in our country, and the election of its members must also be prudent."

The system of the House of Commons proposed by Arthur is actually similar to the British system. The House of Commons is controlled by political parties and common people, while the House of Lords is in the hands of the monarch.

Although the House of Commons also has the right to propose and amend laws and elect cabinet members, the House of Lords is the final review body.

Without the consent of the House of Lords, all proposals and election results of the House of Commons can be invalidated, which is also one of Arthur's trump cards.

According to Arthur's proposal, the future House of Commons will basically be in Arthur's hands, and cabinet members can be replaced at any time to become loyal to Arthur.

(End of this chapter)