Australasian Democracy

The following pages have been written from the point of view of the year 1896, the greater part of which the author spent in Australia. It has been suggested to the author that he should attempt to discuss Australasian problems with reference to their applicability to Great Britain; but the author has preferred to leave this task, of which the importance cannot be overstated, to persons of greater experience, and to confine himself to a record of Australasian action and to a comparison of the points of similarity or the reverse between the several Provinces. It will be seen, however, that, in some cases, as when dealing, for instance, with the results of payment of members and with the powers and privileges of Australasian Upper Houses, the author has noted differences of conditions which must render deductions by analogy a matter of extreme difficulty.