Q

Queensland--Australian Federation Enabling Bill, rejection of in, [235] Central and Northern Queensland's separation from the South:
Agitation for, [55] Arguments in favour of, [56] Boundaries adopted by Separationists, [56] Claims of Central Queensland, [56] Constitution Bill, attempt at introducing, [59] Decline of agitation, [61] Federal Convention delegates--proportion of Northern and
Central Queensland representatives proposed to be sent, [60] Financial Districts Bill, [59] Imperial Government's intervention, Lord Knutsford's reply
to Northern deputation, [57] Natural products, interchange of between the separated Provinces, [58] Public Debt Liability, [59] Revenue of the districts--Royal Commission of Inquiry into, [59] Supreme Court judges, appointment of, [60] Female Suffrage, result of adopting in, [185] Humanitarian legislation [see that title]
Labour Party [see that title]
Legislative Council, members nominated for life without salary, [121] Pastoral industries [see that title]
Railways, management of by the State, [251] Revenue and expenditure--development of industries by the State, [77] Sugar cultivation [see that title]

R

Radical result of elections after establishment of Female Suffrage in
South Australia and New Zealand, [193]
Railways:
New South Wales, appointment of railway Commissioners, [39] New Zealand, reservation of Crown Lands for constructing,
withdrawn by Government, [86] Queensland railways, management of by the State, [252] Tasmanian land-grant railways, encouragement of enterprise by, [181] Victoria:
Extravagant Expenditure on, [142], [246], [249] Railway Commissioners' libel action against Mr. David Syme, [143] Western Australia, [162]
Referendum [sec title Plebiscite]
Reid, Right Hon. G. H., [36], [50], [51], [227]
Religious bodies, Western Australia, grants to, abolition of, [159]
Responsible Government:
Australasia, advantages and disadvantages of, [264] Western Australia obtaining, [156]
Revenue and expenditure:
Federation of Australasian Provinces--revenue and expenditure
of Commonwealth, regulations for, [221] New Zealand, reduction of expenditure, [88] Queensland:
Central and Northern Queensland--revenue of the districts,
Royal Commission of Inquiry into, [59] Development of industries by the State, [77] Victoria:
Extravagant expenditure of, [142] Legislative Council's inability to check, [126] Western Australia, causes of improved credit, [167]
Rowdiness and drunkenness, absence of among Coolgardie miners, [314]
Russell, Captain, misuse of political patronage charges brought against
New Zealand Government by, [269]

S

Salaries:
Australasian Parliaments, effect of salaries on members, [267] Parliament of Commonwealth proposed salary of members of, [220]
Salvation Army services at Coolgardie goldfields, [312]
Savings Bank returns:
Individual effort of Australian labouring class demonstrated by, [259] South Australian, [33]
Seddon, Right Hon. R. J., [106], [119], [120]
Shops in Victoria, hours of closing, [134]
Socialism:
Queensland Labour Party, socialistic tendencies of, [73] State Socialism in Australasia, origin and extent of, [245], [249] "Solidarity" vote of New South Wales Labour Party, [50]
South Australia:
Democratic policy due to Constitution, [2] Dissolution of both Houses after disagreement, success of, [178] Education [see that title]
Elective Executive, substitution of, advocated, [26] Female Suffrage [see that title]
Income tax on incomes derived from property or personal exertion,
distinction between, [279] Industrial disputes, Boards of Conciliation for, [284] Labour Party [see that title]
Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council [see those titles]
Legislative measures, [24] Plebiscite [see that title]
Plural voting forbidden in, [2] Produce Export Department:
Institution of, [21] Output of the various Provinces, means of securing uniformity in, [23] Progressive Taxation first introduced in, [16] Savings Bank Returns, [33] Tariff question settled in favour of Protection, [24] Village Settlements [see that title]
South-Western Railway, Western Australia, course of, [162]
State Farm in New Zealand for relief of unemployed, [113]
State Socialism in Australasia, origin and extent of, [245], [249]
Stout, Sir Robert, misuse of political patronage, charges brought
against New Zealand Government by, [271]
Succession Duties, assessment of in South Australia, [20]
Sugar cultivation in Queensland:
Irregularity of employment in, [69] Kanakas [see that title]
Modifications in, [64] Sugar Works Guarantee Act, industry developed by, [65]
Syme, Mr. David, [153]

T

Tailoresses' Union, formation of in Victoria, [135]
Tariff:
New South Wales, Labour Party's disagreement on question of, [49] South Australia, tariff question settled in favour of Protection, [24] Victoria, protective tariff in, cause of contention between
Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, [123]
Tasmania:
Female Suffrage [see that title]
Graduated Death Duties, assessment of, [278] Immigration of coloured races, restriction of, [170] Income tax on incomes derived from property and personal exertion,
distinction between, [279] Legislative Council [see that title]
Produce and Export Department--inspection of exported produce, [172] Public works, taxation for obtaining funds for, [181] Railways--land-grant railways for encouragement of private
enterprise, [181]
Taxation:
Additional taxation cause of conflict between Legislative
Assembly and Legislative Council, [123] Australian Provinces' form of direct taxation, [279] New South Wales Labour Party, taxation of land values obtained by, [50] New Zealand, assessment of land and income taxes in, [89] South Australia, progressive taxation first introduced into, [16] Tasmania, public works outlay, taxation for obtaining funds for, [181]
Technical instruction in agriculture, &c., by experts, New Zealand, [104]
Telegraphic and postal departments--Parliament of Commonwealth's
exclusive control of, [221]
Town and country antagonism--reflex of antagonism between Victorian
Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, [131]
Town and country inhabitants, difference in development of, necessity
of considering with regard to Australasian Federation, [299]
Trade Unions, workmen's willingness to form, [281]
Traditional Conservatism, absence of among Australasian politicians, [277]

U

Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Bill, forbidding introduction of
consumptive persons into New Zealand, [295]
Unemployed:
Indiscriminate assistance, [255] New South Wales:
Casual Labour Board and Labour Bureau, [45] Loafers, placing in Industrial Homes, proposed, [48] Money spent on works for, [46], [47] New Zealand:
Charitable Aid Expenditure of 1896, [116] Compulsory labour for loafers, [115] Improved-Farm Settlements system, [111] State Farm near Wellington, [113] South Australia:
Village Settlements, [6] Victoria:
Land Acts of 1893, [149] Leongatha Colony, [151], [268] Public subscriptions for, [150] Shiftlessness of men, [153]
Union Steamship Company, New Zealand, engineers' industrial dispute,
[290], [291]
Upper House [see titles Legislative Council and Conflict between
Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council]