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Baker’s Brainchild: Sir Richard Chaffey Baker and the Foundations of the Australian Senate

Rosemary Laing

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Description:Sir Richard Baker’s role in the establishment of the government of Australia and as the Australian Senate’s first President (1901–06) was particularly significant.Independently wealthy, Eton and Cambridge educated, and a lawyer, Baker was of a South Australian political family, and his career in South Australian politics was not without incident. The notoriously hot-headed Charles Cameron Kingston once challenged him to a duel. And they both rubbed shoulders and were instrumental in the creation of an Australian legislature.Here, Rosemary Laing, the Senate’s 13th Clerk, recounts Baker’s life and career in politics, highlighting his contribution to the making of the Australian Constitution and his grand finale in the Senate, where he strove to ensure the Senate fulfilled its constitutional promise.Baker’s pioneering approaches are apparent today in the operations of the Senate. His biography has been long awaited.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Baker’s Brainchild: Sir Richard Chaffey Baker and the Foundations of the Australian Senate. To get started finding Baker’s Brainchild: Sir Richard Chaffey Baker and the Foundations of the Australian Senate, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 388

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing

Release: 2025

ISBN: 1923267515

Description: Sir Richard Baker’s role in the establishment of the government of Australia and as the Australian Senate’s first President (1901–06) was particularly significant.Independently wealthy, Eton and Cambridge educated, and a lawyer, Baker was of a South Australian political family, and his career in South Australian politics was not without incident. The notoriously hot-headed Charles Cameron Kingston once challenged him to a duel. And they both rubbed shoulders and were instrumental in the creation of an Australian legislature.Here, Rosemary Laing, the Senate’s 13th Clerk, recounts Baker’s life and career in politics, highlighting his contribution to the making of the Australian Constitution and his grand finale in the Senate, where he strove to ensure the Senate fulfilled its constitutional promise.Baker’s pioneering approaches are apparent today in the operations of the Senate. His biography has been long awaited.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Baker’s Brainchild: Sir Richard Chaffey Baker and the Foundations of the Australian Senate. To get started finding Baker’s Brainchild: Sir Richard Chaffey Baker and the Foundations of the Australian Senate, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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