The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 290: Chapter 258: Confirming the Candidate for the New Position

In the following days, Arthur met with the bishops of Australia and New Zealand in succession and st a telegram to inquire about the opinions of the Church of England. He subsequtly announced the establishmt of the New Protestant Association of Australasia and the creation of the Archbishop of Australasia.

The title of Archbishop of Australasia is primarily a religious one, as well as the head of the Australasian Protestant Church, overseeing all the Protestant faithful in Australasia.

As such, it is the apex of the religious hierarchy in Australasia, and the position that all Australasian Protestant bishops aspire to.

Steed Marlborough, an archbishop from the Church of England's Protestant Association, was chos as the first Archbishop of Australasia.

If all goes well, Archbishop Steed will arrive in Australasia in early July to begin his term as the first Archbishop of Australasia.

Of course, in exchange for befits, the Australasian Protestant Association will separate from the English Protestant Association and become an indepdt kingdom Protestant church.

The residt church of the Archbishop of Australasia is the Victoria Cathedral in the city cter of Sydney. This church has a history of over a hundred years, making it the oldest and largest church in Australasia, as well as the one with the most congregation members.

To demonstrate his support for the church, Arthur announced that he would donate 500,000 Australian dollars to church construction and, in his personal capacity,Donate 0,000 Aussie dollars to Victoria Cathedral to help with maintance and construction.

With its own indepdt Protestant Church, Australasia can also make it more convit for Arthur to rule in Australasia.

At least in the future, the royal family's activities will only require the invitation of Australasia's bishops and no longer necessitate the cumbersome journey to England to personally invite the bishops.

Arthur's attitude towards the construction of the church has also won the goodwill of some loyal believers. Coupled with Arthur's op and receptive attitude towards Christianity as a whole, the establishmt of the Protestant Church did not affect the arrival of other European immigrants.

At the beginning of July, Steed officially arrived at Sydney Harbor, and Arthur personally met with Steed and his tourage, bestowing the position of Archbishop of Victoria on Steed.

Archbishop Steed's attitude toward Arthur is also very submissive, as he knows who his archbishop status comes from and that this is not an era wh divine power is greater than royal power like the Middle Ages.

A few days later, at Minister Grant's suggestion, Arthur collaborated with Archbishop Steed to establish the Victoria Language School, aiming to help immigrants coming to Australasia quickly learn the English language.

Although the British Empire is currtly the undisputed world superpower, this does not prevt the majority of ordinary Europeans from grasping the English language at best.

If they are Western European immigrants, it is better, but Russian immigrants are basically completely inexpericed in English.

Most of them are the lower classes of Russia, and if they could master flut English, something would be fishy.

But Australasia is after all a country dominated by British descdants, with English as the official language and Protestantism as the official religion.

This also means that these people who are not proficit in English must master conversational English in a short period of time in order to live better in Australasian society.

Currtly, with the increasing number of Russian immigrants, the problem of many people not speaking English has emerged.

This is the initial inttion of Arthur, partnering with Archbishop Steed to establish language schools to help these Russians adapt better to Australasian life.

As for allowing the church to participate, it was Archbishop Steed's request. Arthur did not need to think about the reason – the newly-appointed archbishop had already begun plotting the spread of the gospel.

However, this is also a good thing for the unity of Australasia, so it is not wrong to let religious forces participate.

Meanwhile, the House of Represtatives elections are underway in full swing.

With the arrival of July, the ballots from all states will be unified for review and statistics at the state governmt level. This is a 0-day period for counting ballots, after which the states will report the final election results to the governmt and Arthur. These results will be released to the public upon verification of no errors.

This period of time is the most unsettling time for some candidates. While they previously felt tse due to their busy campaign schedules, the sudd lull in activity, coupled with various psychological issues, made them ev more anxious.

Fortunately, time passes quickly, and with the last state reporting its statistics on July , 908, the voting statistics phase has come to an official d.

Next will be a four-day period of random checks, and if it is determined that there are no major problems with the votes in each state, the list of candidates for the new House of Represtatives will basically be confirmed.

First of all, all cabinet ministers, without exception, have won seats in the House of Represtatives.

Actually, it is tak for granted, as they have all reached the highest level of governmt and should be able to obtain the smaller position of a House of Represtatives member.

It is worth mtioning that not only the currt cabinet ministers, but also the former Prime Minister Evan and the previous ministers have all obtained seats in the House of Represtatives, which means that they are likely to challge for cabinet seats once again.

After randomly sampling the reported data from several states, on July 5, 908, the Australasian Governmt and the Royal Family jointly disclosed the list of members of the new House of Represtatives and requested that the House of Represtatives elect a Speaker as soon as possible to join the Cabinet Governmt's seats.

This is a direct way to give birth to a cabinet member and the best opportunity for all members of the House of Represtatives to ter the Cabinet Governmt.

However, the developmt of evts would definitely not be what these represtatives had in mind. In the d, the position of Speaker of the House of Represtatives was won by Prime Minister Evan, who had accumulated ormous prestige in the previous two governmts.

Of course, at this point, a more appropriate title should be Sir Evan.

As the Prime Minister of the previous two governmts and nobled as a knight by Arthur himself, Sir Evan's prestige among the many members of parliamt was the highest. The position of Speaker, which requires a large amount of prestige to preside over the work of the House of Represtatives, naturally fell into the hands of Sir Evan.

However, it is clear that Sir Evan also had plans of his own. Otherwise, it would also be possible for the major parties to win the position of Speaker.

In fact, this is normal. Although he was the Prime Minister of the previous two governmts, Sir Evan has be away from the political ara for more than a year, and the next Cabinet Governmt election is ev three years away.

As Australasia develops more and more smoothly, the currt Prime Minister Walter and many ministers are also accumulating their own prestige.

If he were to participate directly in the next election, success would not necessarily be in Sir Evan's reach. After all, ev if he was successful in obtaining the Prime Minister's position, it would be virtually impossible for him to be re-elected again.

This is because according to the Australasian Constitution, a Prime Minister can serve for a maximum of two consecutive terms and three terms in total.

If Sir Evan is elected, it will also be his third term as Prime Minister. Unless Arthur personally orders it, re-election is not possible.

Under such circumstances, should they make frids with a pottial re-elected Prime Minister, or with Sir Evan, who is unable to be re-elected? This is a good question.

Now that he can re-ter the cabinet in another way and, like everyone else, continue to accumulate his own prestige, this will undoubtedly increase the possibility of Sir Evan regaining the position of Prime Minister.

It is worth mtioning that on the day of his successful election as Speaker of the House of Represtatives, Sir Evan, or Speaker Evan, first requested an audice with Arthur. After an intimate and joyable conversation with Arthur, he wt to the Cabinet to meet his old frids.

No matter what everyone's inner thoughts were, the Cabinet Governmt's meeting was very pleasant. Speaker Evan's former subordinates expressed their congratulations and welcome to the Speaker, and wished him good luck in joining the Cabinet Governmt again.

Since the election of the House of Represtatives has be completed, it is time to fill the remaining cabinet seats.

On August 3rd, Arthur nominated candidates for Chief Justice and Minister of State to the House of Represtatives. After three days of elections and discussions, the final Chief Justice was determined to be Gregory Harris, and the final candidate for Minister of State was Kt.

Yes, it is Defse Minister Kt. Since the position of Minister of State is higher than that of Defse Minister, Kt is also eligible to run for election.

However, after being elected as the Minister of State, the position of Defse Minister would become vacant. Arthur th nominated three military personnel and let the House of Represtatives hold another election.

Finally, the new Defse Minister was elected, who was the former Brigadier Geral Raul Prange of the Guard Division.

At this point, the cabinet members after the reforms were basically determined, except for the Royal Affairs Minister directly appointed by Arthur.

However, as this was a private matter of the royal family, no one mtioned it.

The currt positions of the Australasian Cabinet Governmt are: Chief Minister (Prime Minister) Walter, Secretary of State (Deputy Prime Minister) Kt, Archbishop Steed, Chief Justice Gregory, Speaker of the House Evan, Foreign Secretary Andrew, Minister of Education Richard, Industry Secretary Pierre, Secretary of Public Security Thomas, Minister of Livelihood Hris, Minister of Agriculture Mark, Minister of Transportation Laur, Minister of Health Willie, Minister of Finance Roger, Defse Secretary Raul.

Although the cabinet seats have be expanded, the actual changes have not be significant. In addition to Defse Minister Kt becoming the Minister of State and Brigadier Raul becoming the Defse Minister, most of the other new positions are relatively indepdt, such as the Archbishop, Chief Justice, and Speaker of the House.

These positions have little impact on the day-to-day affairs of the Cabinet Governmt. Their primary role in the Cabinet Governmt is the authority to vote in cabinet meetings.

The only position that could pottially impact the Cabinet Governmt is Kt's post as Minister of State. This is a de facto Deputy Prime Minister, but because he is an acquaintance of the cabinet ministers and tds to keep a low profile, he has not caused too much unrest or turmoil within the Cabinet Governmt.

From August 5, wh the candidates for the new positions were basically determined, Arthur gave the new cabinet members two weeks to deal with their respective affairs. After two weeks, a cabinet meeting was held on August 0th. The purpose was not only to determine the new cabinet's goals and the specific division of duties, but also to allow all members to have a formal meet-and-greet.

This relieved those who were appointed to the new positions. After all, this was a new position for Australasia, and they needed time to determine their responsibilities and gather collective information.

If a cabinet meeting were held immediately, they would probably be ignorant about many things, and the meeting would lose its purpose.