Chapter 259 New Position Candidate Confirmed

In the following days, Arthur successively summoned the bishops of the churches of Australia and New Zealand, and sent a telegram to ask for the opinions of the General Association of Protestants in England. He then announced the establishment of the General Association of Protestants in Australia and created the title of Archbishop of Australia.

The Archbishop of Australia is first of all a clerical title, and also the Archbishop of the Protestant Church in Australia, who coordinates and manages all Protestants in Australia.

Therefore, this is the highest point in the clergy of Australia and the position that all Protestant bishops in Australia dream of becoming.

The first Archbishop of Australia is Steed Malbranque, an Archbishop from the Protestant Association of England.

If all goes well, Archbishop Steed will come to Australia in early July to take office and become the first Archbishop of Australia.

Of course, in exchange for interests, the Protestant Association of Australia will separate from the Protestant Association of England and become an independent Kingdom Protestant Church.

The permanent church of the Archbishop of Australia is the Victoria Cathedral in the center of Sydney. This church has a history of hundreds of years. It is the oldest and largest church in Australasia, and also the church with the most believers.

In order to show his support for the church, Arthur smiled and announced that he would donate 500,000 Australian dollars to the church for various church construction projects, and donated 100,000 Australian dollars to the Victoria Cathedral in his personal name to help the church repair and construction.

After Australasia has its own independent Protestant church, it will be more convenient for Arthur to rule in Australasia.

At least in the future, the royal family only needs to invite the bishops of Australasia for various activities, and there is no need to go to England to personally invite the bishops.

Arthur's construction of the church also aroused the favor of some loyal believers. In addition, Arthur has an open and accepting attitude towards Christianity as a whole, so the establishment of the Protestant Church did not affect the arrival of other European immigrants.

In early July, Steed officially arrived at the Port of Sydney. Arthur also met with Steed in person and personally awarded the position of Archbishop Steed of Victoria.

Archbishop Steed was very respectful to Arthur. After all, he knew who his position as archbishop came from, and he also knew that this was not the era of theocracy over kingship as in the Middle Ages.

A few days later, under the advice of Minister Grant, Arthur invited Archbishop Steed to co-found the Victoria Language School, with the aim of helping immigrants coming to Australasia to quickly master the English language.

Although the British Empire is currently the world's undisputed number one power, this does not prevent most ordinary European people from not mastering the English language.

If they were immigrants from Western Europe, it would be fine, but immigrants from Russia knew basically nothing about English.

Most of them were the lower-class people in Russia, and it would be strange if they could master fluent English.

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

This also means that these people who are not proficient in English must master English in a short period of time to be able to live better in the Australasia society.

At present, with the increasing number of Russian immigrants, the problem of many people not being able to speak English has already emerged.

This is also the original intention of Arthur and Archbishop Steed to establish a language school, which is to make these Russians better adapt to life in Australasia.

As for the involvement of the church, it was Archbishop Steed's request. As for the reason, Arthur knew without thinking that the newly appointed archbishop had already begun to plan the famous missionary thing.

However, this is also a good thing for the unification of Australasia, so it is not impossible to let the church participate.

At the same time, the election of the House of Representatives is also in full swing.

As time enters July, the votes of each state are also unified to the state government for statistical review. This will be a 20-day statistical period. After that, each state will report the final election results to the government and Arthur, and announce them to the outside world after the review is correct.

This period of time is the most uneasy time for some candidates. Before, because of the busy campaign, although I felt nervous, I was not so uneasy.

But now that I am idle all of a sudden, various psychological problems are at work, which makes people feel more panicked.

Fortunately, time passed quickly. On July 21, 1908, as the last state reported the results to the government and Arthur, the voting and counting process was officially over.

The next step will be a four-day random check. If it is determined that there is basically no problem with the votes in each state, then the list of candidates for the new House of Representatives will be basically determined.

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

This is actually a default. After all, they have reached the highest point of the government. It is impossible that they cannot even get a small position in the House of Representatives.

It is worth mentioning that not only the current cabinet ministers, but also the former Prime Minister Evan and several previous ministers have all won seats in the House of Representatives, which also means that they are likely to launch an attack on the cabinet seats again.

After randomly checking the reported data of several states, on July 25, 1908, the Australian government and the royal family jointly announced the list of members of the new House of Representatives and asked the House of Representatives to elect a speaker as soon as possible to join the seats of the cabinet government.

This is a direct way to create a cabinet member, and it is also the most promising opportunity for all members to enter the cabinet government.

However, the development of things will definitely not be as these members think. The person who finally won the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives was Prime Minister Evan, who had accumulated great reputation in the previous two governments.

Of course, the more appropriate title at this time should be Sir Evan.

As the first two prime ministers of the government, and also personally granted the title of knight by Arthur, Sir Evan's reputation among many members of parliament can be said to be the highest. The position of Speaker, which requires a lot of prestige to preside over the work of the House of Representatives, naturally fell into the hands of Sir Evan.

However, it is obvious that Sir Evan also has a plan, otherwise it is not small for major political parties to obtain the position of Speaker.

In fact, this is normal. Although he is the first two prime ministers, Sir Evan has been away from politics for more than a year, and the next cabinet government election will even take three years.

Seeing that the development of Australasia is getting smoother and smoother, the current Prime Minister Walter and many ministers are also accumulating their own reputation.

If he directly participates in the next election, Sir Evan may not be successful. After all, even if Sir Evan succeeds in getting the position of prime minister, it is basically impossible for him to be re-elected.

This is because according to the constitution of Australasia, the prime minister can be re-elected for a maximum of two terms and a maximum of three terms.

If Sir Evan is elected, it will be his third term as prime minister. Unless Arthur orders it personally, it is impossible to be re-elected.

In this case, should we make friends with the prime minister who can be re-elected, or with Sir Evan who cannot be re-elected? This is a good question.

Now that he can enter the cabinet again through other means, like others, he continues to accumulate his reputation, which will undoubtedly increase the possibility of Sir Evan getting the prime minister's position again.

It is worth mentioning that on the day he was successfully elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sir Evan or Speaker Evan first asked to see Arthur. After chatting with Arthur intimately and happily for a long time, he went to the cabinet to meet his old friends.

No matter what everyone thinks in their hearts, the meeting of the cabinet government is still very pleasant. Speaker Evan's old subordinates also expressed their congratulations and welcome to Speaker Evan, congratulating him on joining the cabinet government again.

Now that the election of the House of Representatives has been completed, it is time to fill the remaining cabinet seats.

On August 3, Arthur nominated candidates for the Chief Justice and Secretary of State to the House of Representatives. After three days of elections and discussions, the final Chief Justice was determined to be Gerry Harris, and the final candidate for Secretary of State was Kent.

Yes, it was Defense Secretary Kent. Because the rank of Secretary of State is higher than that of Defense Secretary, Kent is also eligible to run for election.

However, after being elected as Secretary of State, the position of Defense Secretary became vacant. Arthur then nominated three military people and asked the House of Representatives to re-elect.

The final new Defense Secretary was also elected, and it was Raul Prange, the former commander of the Guards Division.

Now the members of the reformed cabinet are basically all determined, except for the Minister of Royal Affairs directly appointed by Arthur.

But this is a private matter of the royal family after all, so no one mentioned it.

At present, the specific positions of the Australian Cabinet Government are: Chief Minister (Prime Minister) Walter, Minister of State (Deputy Prime Minister) Kent, Archbishop Steed, Lord Chancellor Gerry, Speaker of the House of Representatives Evan, Foreign Minister Andrew, Education Minister Richard, Industry Minister Pierre, Law Minister Thomas, People's Livelihood Minister Henris, Agriculture Minister Mark, Transport Minister Lauren, Health Minister Willie, Finance Minister Roger, Defense Minister Raul.

Although the seats of the Cabinet Government have been expanded, the actual changes are not significant. Except for Defense Minister Kent becoming Secretary of State and Guard Division Commander Raul becoming Defense Minister, most of the other newly added positions are relatively independent, such as the Archbishop, Lord Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

These positions have little impact on the Cabinet Government's usual government affairs. What they do in the Cabinet Government is more about voting rights at cabinet meetings.

The only position that may have an impact on the Cabinet Government is Kent's position as Secretary of State. This is a real deputy prime minister, but because he is an acquaintance of the cabinet ministers, and Kent is usually low-key, it did not cause much unrest and turmoil to the cabinet government.

Starting from August 5, when the candidates for the new positions were basically determined, Arthur gave the new cabinet members two weeks to deal with their own affairs. Two weeks later, on August 20, a cabinet meeting was held to determine the goals and specific division of duties of the new cabinet, and also to let all members have a formal meeting.

This made the people in the new positions feel relieved. After all, this is a new position for Australasia, and they also need some time to determine their responsibilities and collective information.

If the cabinet meeting is held immediately, I am afraid that they can only ask three questions about some things, and then the meeting will be useless.

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