labour market regulation (cont.)
minimum wage 2, 5, 26, 121, 127,
132 – 40, 192, 218, 228, 234,
235, 237
National Labour Standards 130
New Zealand Labour Relations Act
(1987) 134
reverse-order draft 216
Labour Party of New Zealand 295, 298, 299,
301, 302, 304, 305, 306
land
boom of the 1880s 235
price 53, 299
quantity of 52 n36
selection 36, 52, 241, 294
taxation 28, 36, 229, 295 n15
land grants to railways
Australia 184, 253
Canada 253
United States 253
Lang, Jack 158, 171, 184
Lang, John Dunmore 63
Lange, David 296, 301 n27, 306
legalism 49, 50, 115
Legislative Council 24
of New Zealand 295 n14, 300
of NSW 146
of Queensland 162
of Victoria 144
Leigh, A. 101
Liberal Party of Australia 153, 155, 158, 162,
193, 194, 202, 277, 279
see alsoCommonwealth Liberal Party
Liberal Party of Canada 280
Liberal Party of New Zealand 295, 297,
298, 299
Liberalism 41, 48, 72, 83, 92, 97, 112, 302 n32
see alsoNew Liberalism
living standards 21, 122, 304
Lowell, A. 102
lumpers 261
Lyons, J. 66, 192
Macintyre, Stuart 99, 100, 297
McKay, Hugh Victor 230, 231, 232, 233, 234,
236, 238, 239, 240, 241
McLeod, A. L. 100
Macquarie, Lachlan 47, 48
Mannheim, K. 83
Mansfield, H. 86, 102
manufacturing 25, 28, 131, 194, 231, 232, 238,
239, 240, 291 n3
Maˉori 20, 34, 293, 294 n10, 295 n14
‘better British’ 291
contrasts with Australia 19, 20
Marsden, Samuel 77
Martin, Allan 39, 97
Martineau, John 38 n11, 45, 46, 146
mateship 38, 40, 44
Meaney, N. 81, 84, 93
meat industry 247, 292
Melbourne 12 n19, 21, 28, 30, 37 n9, 54, 69,
109, 120, 121, 131, 174, 175, 181, 212,
214, 220, 222, 230, 231, 235, 236, 290
Melbourne Cup 30, 209 n1, 212, 304
Melleuish, G. 97, 100
Menzies government 123, 124, 304
Menzies, R. 74–7, 108, 173, 174 n12, 244, 304
Merivale, H. 89
metals and minerals 19, 22, 53, 83, 307
see alsogold mining
Methodism 57, 229, 296
Métin, Albert 4 n9, 42 n15, 45 n21, 167, 177
Michelet, J. 83
Mill, J. S. 88, 90 n3, 93, 146, 295 n15, 296
minimum wage 120, 122, 127, 128, 131, 132,
133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
Low Pay Commission (UK) 134
Minimum Wage Act, New Zealand 135
and unemployment 138, 139
mining taxation 204 n25
Monash, General Sir John 50, 260, 284
monopoly and monopolisation 8, 108, 123
natural 52
railway 167, 170, 172, 184, 250, 256, 257
in sport 213, 215, 223
Montesquieu 90 n3, 92
Mormonism 64
Muldoon, Robert 296, 297, 301, 302,
305 n37, 306
Murdoch, Rupert 213
Mussolini, B. 84
Napoleon 85, 95
National Insurance Act 192
National Party of Australia 153, 155, 156
National Party of New Zealand 298, 299, 301
304, 306
Nationalist Party 109, 151, 153, 154,
157, 276
Nationalist Country Party coalition 109
New Deal 191
New Guinea 18, 19
New Ireland 293, 293 n8
New Liberalism 6, 98
New Munster 293, 307
New Zealand 2, 3, 8,9, 13, 19, 21, 28, 29, 177,
182, 205, 211, 212
Australian immigrants 295, 296, 297n21, 304
as Britain of the South 291, 292
Closer Economic Relations 300
electoral system 24, 143 n3, 145 n5, 295 n14
exports 291, 292, 307
federalism and centralism 293, 295Index