Chapter 556 New Administrative Division

While the struggle between Britain and Ireland was going on vigorously, the political arena in Australasia was also very lively, and even the people were talking about it.

Of course, the attention of the Australasia political arena was not on the British civil war. Compared with the British civil war, the Australasians paid more attention to the current government's new decision, that is, the redivision of the administrative divisions of the Australian region.

The issue of administrative divisions in the Australian region is also a commonplace. At present, it is completely divided according to the size of the previous colonial period, which is quite unreasonable.

In terms of land area, Western Australia and South Australia together occupy most of Australia, but the population is less than one-third of Australia.

The total population of the two states of Victoria and New South Wales, which are smaller in area, has occupied more than half of the Australian region, and it is also quite troublesome to manage.

The facts have told the Australasia government that it is no longer reasonable to continue to use the divisions of the colonial period, and it is necessary to explore a new administrative division to balance the huge gap in land area and population among the states.

Of course, Arthur and the government did not operate blindly when redivisioning.

Arthur had consulted the public on the redivision of administrative divisions many years ago. At that time, more than 60% of the more than 100,000 Australasian people surveyed supported the redivision of administrative divisions, and 20% thought it didn't matter.

According to the latest survey results, 70% of people are in favor of redivision of administrative divisions, which is the real reason why Arthur is determined to promote the redivision of administrative divisions.

Now that the public opinion has been supported, it is time to put this issue on the cabinet meeting and the House of Representatives for discussion.

The process of redivision of administrative divisions this time is divided into three steps. First, major media, newspapers and the government will solicit opinions from the public and count the design plans for administrative divisions.

Subsequently, the House of Representatives will vote on many design plans, select some divisions with higher support rates, and then report them to the cabinet government for the final vote.

The administrative division with the highest support rate is the next administrative division of Australasian.

After such a process was announced, the enthusiasm of the masses for redesigning the country's administrative divisions was still relatively high.

After all, this is an opportunity to actually participate in national affairs, and if you are lucky, you can even decide the country's future administrative divisions.

Of course, designing administrative divisions is not just a matter of words. It must be considered comprehensively based on the distribution of cities, the distribution of mountains and rivers, and the size of the local population.

Therefore, administrative divisions cannot rely too much on the design of the people. All members of the House of Representatives must also come up with their own designs, as well as the designs of experts in related fields. This is a nationwide design competition.

The changes in administrative divisions are all concentrated in Australia. Other regions such as New Zealand and New Guinea do not have major problems and do not need to be changed.

Of course, for the accuracy of the design, the site selection and specific location of the new capital have been fully announced in the news to ensure that no one will forget the existence of the new capital.

The discussion of administrative divisions lasts for five months. During these five months, the masses can submit articles to newspapers or the House of Representatives at any time.

But what is really valued by the government and the House of Representatives are the administrative division conjectures of those officials and corresponding experts.

Most of the people's considerations are unrealistic or do not consider comprehensive factors, and the final division is not very reasonable.

The truly reasonable political division still depends on those professionals who have been exposed to politics and understand the specific conditions of each state.

Taking this opportunity, Arthur also gave William an assignment, which was to design an administrative division of the Australian region in his own plan.

William has enjoyed the education of elite aristocrats for more than ten years, and it is time to test what he has gained and what kind of thoughts he has in these more than ten years of study.

What Arthur did not expect was that within a few days, William handed in his own administrative division of the Australian region.

William's plan is to open up a new capital territory near Fort St. Arthur, just like the previous capital territory, and be independent of the rule of New South Wales.

At the same time, the capital territory where Sydney is located was changed to the Sydney Territory, forming two special administrative regions, one east and one west, with the capital territory.

But the little guy was a little troubled about the division of New South Wales and Victoria.

In the end, he chose to divide a part of the border between the two states and establish a new state to reduce the management pressure faced by the two states.

In general, this design has some merits, but it can only be said to be a copycat of the previous capital territory.

Such a division does not change much about the current administrative division of Australia, and it cannot be called a good plan.

However, administrative division is not so easy. Even those professional experts have to make relevant comprehensive considerations to divide the administrative regions that seem more reasonable.

But whether it is reasonable or not depends on whether the new administrative division has an impact on people's lives, that is, whether it can facilitate the new state governments to carry out corresponding political management of their own territories.

To put it bluntly, the change of administrative divisions is to facilitate the states to better govern, so the direction of administrative division changes should also be biased towards this major theme.

The most critical of these is the division of the capital where Fort St. Arthur is located, and the division of New South Wales and Victoria.

The division of other states such as Western Australia and South Australia is not difficult. After all, the population of these two states is not large, and there is no need to consider too many factors when dividing.

During this period, the House of Representatives should be the busiest department.

Because they are responsible for reviewing the administrative division designs submitted by newspapers, this also makes the members of the House of Representatives extremely busy, and they dare not be careless.

"Mike, come and take a look, this design is interesting." In an office in the House of Representatives, an old man who looks over fifty years old greeted another person.

"Dude, you've said this at least three times today, but none of the designs meet the government's requirements. I advise you not to put your hopes on the people. The designs of the common people have too many limitations, and they are basically just their own imagination." The man named Mike complained, but his body was honest and he had already walked to the other person.

"This is different, man. Look at this division, and it also comes with the corresponding reasons for the division, as well as the data of each state after the division. According to his division ideas, this is a very reasonable administrative division map." Davis said indifferently.

"Huh?" Mike picked up the administrative division design map, and just when he was about to criticize it, he found the difference between this design map and others.

"Capital District? Northern Australia? God, is this really a design by an ordinary person?" Mike asked in disbelief.

"That must be right, man. Instead of being surprised at the origin of this design, it is better to study the rationality of this design. Mike, maybe we really found a good design." Davis said with a smile.

As a very patriotic Australasian, Davis was very happy to see that the government's administrative division had such a reasonable design.

"Submit it to the Senate President and let everyone vote on it! This may be the first administrative division design submitted to the cabinet. We have to see what the cabinet's attitude is." Mike also nodded and said rationally.

The House of Representatives will hold a centralized vote every week for the seemingly reasonable administrative division designs collected.

So far, there has not been an administrative division design that has been recognized by more than 70%, which is what Davis and Mike expect.

Soon, the meeting of the House of Representatives started again.

There were more than ten administrative division designs that participated in the vote, but in the end only two received more than 70% support and were successfully reported to the cabinet government.

The cabinet government that received the two administrative divisions also started a discussion at this time.

As the final link in deciding the administrative divisions, the cabinet government attaches great importance to the design of these administrative divisions, and must take into account all factors including population, economy, industry, agriculture, etc. to ensure that there will be no problems with the new administrative divisions.

However, the good news is that the population of Australasia is not much different from each other because it all comes from immigrants and there is a trend of forming a unified Australasian nation.

This also reduces the problem of ethnic division in administrative division. After all, everyone is a unified Australasian, and no matter how it is divided, it will not change this fact.

After discussion by the cabinet government, the design found by Mike and Davis was finally reported to Arthur, asking for Arthur's final decision.

June 1921, Sydney Palace.

Arthur looked at the administrative division design reported by the cabinet government and was quite satisfied.

This administrative division design has a relatively large impact on Australia's existing administrative divisions.

Except for Tasmania, all administrative districts in other Australian regions have changed to a certain extent.

Of course, the current capital territory has the smallest change, just changing it to the Sydney Territory.

The division of Western Australia and South Australia is somewhat similar to the Northern Territory of Australia in later generations, except that the newly established Northern Australia occupies part of Western Australia and becomes larger.

It is a bit like the three-part division of Western Australia and South Australia, which makes Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Australia form a triangular trend, and there is not much difference in the area between the three states.

The capital of the newly established Northern Australia is Darwin in the north, which is the largest city in the northern part of Australia. Later, it was also very suitable to be the capital of Northern Australia.

Such a division can reduce the land area of ​​Western Australia and South Australia, and divide the vast Western Australia into three parts, which is more conducive to the rule of the national and state governments.

The next is the highlight of the administrative division, that is, the division of the eastern Australian region.

Completely different from all the previous conjecture designs, this design approved by the House of Representatives and the Cabinet government roughly divides New South Wales into two parts, east and west.

The eastern New South Wales retains its original name, and the state capital is still in Newcastle.

The western state of New South Wales merged part of the southwestern part of Queensland, and added Victoria's land in the north of the Murray River to form a very large capital district, with its capital at Fort St. Arthur.

The advantage of doing this is that it greatly reduced the area of ​​New South Wales, while reducing the areas of Victoria and Queensland, and expanding the administrative divisions of the eastern Australian region to six. The area of ​​each administrative division is not so large, and the population is not so large, so the pressure of management is much smaller.

At the same time, the new capital district will cover the entire Murray River Basin, which is also the top priority for the future development of the Murray River Basin.

The three cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Fort St. Arthur form a triangle, which will radiate the four administrative divisions in southeastern Australia and create the most prosperous and developed region in Australia.

Although the area of ​​New South Wales has been reduced by almost half, the more prosperous areas in the east have all been retained, and the damage is not too great.

According to the current situation, if the Australian region is divided according to the new administrative divisions, the comprehensive situation between the states will be much closer, and the huge advantages of Victoria and New South Wales will no longer exist.

In this way, Victoria will become the most economically developed state, followed by New South Wales, Sydney Territory and Western Australia.

The gap between these administrative divisions has been greatly narrowed, and the comprehensive division looks much more reasonable.

Of course, the situation of South Australia and Queensland is not much different from the previous states. Although they are lagging behind, they are not without hope of catching up.

The two newly established administrative divisions, the National Capital Territory and Northern Australia, although their current economy and industry are not as good as those of other earlier administrative divisions, the northern part of Northern Australia is the most developed area on the northern coast of Australia, and the National Capital Territory is the next key development area in Australasia, both of which have quite good potential and development prospects.

Except for the exception of Tasmania, this administrative division is relatively reasonable. Each state has good development prospects, and the gap between states is not too large, which can basically meet the various requirements of Arthur and the government for the new administrative division.

In particular, dividing the most developed southeast corner of Australia in Australasia into four administrative regions can effectively reduce the administrative burden of New South Wales and Victoria.

Moreover, Sydney, which is quite special, has also been retained and renamed as Sydney Territory, which is still a special administrative region independent of the states.

After all, Sydney's population has exceeded 3 million, which is more than the population of quite a few states.

And Sydney's current status is still very special. Before the construction of Fort St. Arthur and the Royal Palace is completely completed, Sydney will still be the capital of Australasia. Preserving its administrative division is the most correct choice and the most appropriate choice at present.

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