The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . 4076. Chapter VIAustralia 1. Australia. — The next great self-governingdivision of the British Empire is Australia. Australiaitself is the island continent on the opposite side ofthe globe to England and south-east of India, and isdivided into five colonies—New South Wales, Victoria,South Australia, Queensland, and Western these is included in the federation of coloniesknown as the Commonwealth of Australia, the adjacentisland colony of Tasmania, which used to be calledVan Diemens Land, to the south of the ma

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The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . 4076. Chapter VIAustralia 1. Australia. — The next great self-governingdivision of the British Empire is Australia. Australiaitself is the island continent on the opposite side ofthe globe to England and south-east of India, and isdivided into five colonies—New South Wales, Victoria,South Australia, Queensland, and Western these is included in the federation of coloniesknown as the Commonwealth of Australia, the adjacentisland colony of Tasmania, which used to be calledVan Diemens Land, to the south of the thinly-populated Northern Territory used to beadministered by the Government of South Australia,but passed into the control of tlie CommonwealthGovernment in 1911. 2. The Australian Commonwealth.—In accord-ance with the Commonwealth Act of 1900 theCommonwealth of Australia was established as fromJanuary 1, 1901. A somewhat ineffective Federalmachinery had existed since 1885 in the FederalCouncil, which met in all seven times; but this F I C 0 a f /V.

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