The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 283: Chapter 252: The Upcoming House of Representatives Election

On January 7, 908, after several days of negotiations and preparations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced the establishmt of the Australasian Propaganda Departmt, affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for domestic and foreign propaganda work.

All news agcies, media, and writers associations will be monitored by the Propaganda Departmt to sure that no information that would affect national stability would circulate domestically and internationally.

The news of the new departmt quickly caught the atttion of many people in the political ara, as the currt positions in Australasia could be described as more demand than supply, especially for important departmts like the Propaganda Departmt affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

With Arthur's hints, Grant Wilson made his preparations early and took advantage of the Unity Party's dominance to successfully secure the position of the first Minister of the Propaganda Departmt.

As the Minister of Propaganda, Grant Wilson naturally knew Arthur's purpose, so on his first day in office, he reported his plans for the Propaganda Departmt to the Foreign Affairs Departmt and requested Cabinet approval.

On January 9, Foreign Minister Andrew successfully submitted Grant's plan to the Cabinet for review, obtained the Cabinet's approval, and put it into effect that same day.

Starting from January 9, all immigrants to Australasia will be allocated to differt regions on a family basis, with the focus shifting more towards areas with smaller populations.

In order to courage these immigrants to migrate to Western Australia and South Australia, the two state governmts have introduced relevant policies at the advice of the Cabinet Departmts, providing at least five acres of additional land as compsation to immigrants.

After all, these two areas account for almost half of Australasia's land area and have only one-fifth of the population, so it is time to give them some support.

For immigrants, Australasia's compsation is indeed gerous. If they go to Western Australia and South Australia, they will gain at least fifte acres of land, hire some indigous labor, and have no problem becoming landlords.

And if they give up the fifte acres of land, they can have priority to ter the Leonora Industrial District under construction and, after training, become workers in the industrial area with higher wages.

Currtly, the income of workers in Australasia is not low, at least a 47 Australian dollars.

After the National Day, the Australasian governmt restarted its busy work, and the construction across the country continued in full swing.

Particularly the Leonora Industrial District, which is currtly heavily prioritized by the governmt, has already invested more than 0,000 indigous workers, with small changes in the site every few days and major changes every week.

Starting from February, Arthur successively attded the gbreaking ceremony of the Australasian battleship, the launch ceremony of the Russian Second Battleship, the formation ceremony of the Fourth Convtional Division, and finally got some rest time in March.

Although busy, Arthur finds it very gratifying.

The future of the Australasian navy has already tered the construction phase, which means that Australasia will soon acquire powerful naval forces, and the security of the country will finally be guaranteed.

On March 7, Prime Minister Walter requested Arthur to attd the regular Cabinet meeting, firstly to report on the currt governmt situation, and secondly to determine the specific process and arrangemts for the national election this year.

Australasia is differt from other European nations. The people of Australasia can elect represtatives at all levels, and represtatives can elect governmt officials at the same level.

The term of a represtative is gerally two years, but it can be maintained by being re-elected.

The terms of all levels of the Australasian governmt are the same, currtly uniformly set at four years.

The Prime Minister of the Cabinet can serve a maximum of two consecutive terms and three terms in total. Cabinet Ministers can serve a maximum of three consecutive terms and five terms in total.

State governors have slightly looser restrictions, with a maximum of two consecutive terms, but no limit on the number of terms in office.

This means that if a governor is popular with the people, there is the possibility of continuing in office under a "three-term, two-term" arrangemt.

The rules for city mayors are ev more lit, with the term still lasting four years but no limit on the number of terms.

As long as city mayors are popular, Arthur doesn't mind them continuing in office, as long as they achieve something.

As for lower-level towns, village heads are gerally appointed by the State Parliamt, with a term of six years and no limit on the number of terms.

All of these officials are under the supervision of the two Parliamts and the people, and the Parliamt has the power to dismiss elected officials, of course, not including the Cabinet Governmt.

However, the House of Represtatives may petition the Royal Parliamt and Arthur for the removal of the currt Cabinet and for new elections.

As the election of the House of Represtatives is involved, Arthur decides to attd the meeting to better list to the governmt officials' reports on their work over the past few months.

On March 9, the regular meeting of the Australasian Cabinet Governmt was held in the Administrative Court.

Amid cheers and applause, Arthur also attded the meeting and naturally took his seat at the head of the meeting room.

The meeting first reported on the work of their respective departmts, such as the Ministry of Industry expanding which industrial bases, the currt status of new industrial base construction, and so on.