STAGES OF COLONIAL EVOLUTION ARE WE INDEPENDENT IN MALAYSIA OR JUST COLONIES? Sarawakians & Sabahans Please read these 2 articles and compare the difference in meaning. Australia is a federation of 6 states and their elected government leader is referred to as Premier NOT Chief Minister. The Northern Territory is not a state and has a Chief Minister The Premiers of the Australian states are the de facto heads of the executive governments in the six states of the Commonwealth of Australia. They perform the same function at the state level as the Prime Minister of Australia performs at the national level. The territory equivalents to the Premiers are the Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. The Queen of Australia and the State Governors are the formal repositories of executive power, however, in practice they act only on the advice of State Premiers and Ministers. Premier applies to an autonomous self governing state but Chief Minister is applied to Leader of a government in the 3rd stage of colonial rule. The conclusion is that both Sabah and Sarawak are still colonies dependencies or at best vassal states of Malaya. But what is the difference anyway? PREMIERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN STATES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiers_of_the_Australian_states CHIEF MINISTER SIGNIFIES A COLONIAL DEPENDANT STAGE NOT REAL AUTONOMY. wordiq/definition/Crown_colony STAGES OF COLONIAL EVOLUTION 1. In the first stage, there is no elected government of any sort. A governor, administrator or commissioner and his advisors run the affairs of the colony single-handedly. 2. In the second stage, a small elected legislature, usually called the legislative council, is founded. From the legislature, the governor appoints an executive council, chaired by himself. The highest ranking bureaucrat is known as the chief secretary. 3. In the third stage the legislature becomes larger, and political parties usually begin to appear. The cabinet is led by a Chief Minister, who is the leader of the majority party in parliament. The governors powers are weakened, and deal mostly with foreign affairs and economic issues, while the elected government controls most domestic concerns. 4. In the fourth stage the Chief Minister becomes known as the Premier, and by this time virtually all executive authority has been delegated from the governor. At this stage or possibly the third stage, such a state may be described as a self-governing colony. The colony may be given Associated Statehood, as in the case of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Vincent, before they were granted full independence. 5. The final stage is complete sovereignty and independence from Britain. The Premier becomes the Prime Minister, and the Governor becomes a Governor General. The new nation only maintains superficial ties to Britain as a Commonwealth Realm, with the British monarch as head of state and (in some cases) the Privy Council as the highest court of appeal. Alternatively, a Commonwealth country may become a republic upon independence, as did Cyprus, Zambia, the Seychelles and Zimbabwe, or have its own monarchy, like Malaya (now part of Malaysia). 6. Most other countries have become republics after independence, as a sort of sixth step, in which constitutional amendments are passed removing the British monarch as Head of State. India was the first country to become a republic while remaining in the Commonwealth, recognizing the British monarch as Head of the Commonwealth. This set a precedent for most other former British colonies, which have since become republics within the Commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiers_of_the_Australian_states
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