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Australasian

adjective
1.
Relating to or found in Australasia.





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"Australasian" Quotes from Famous Books



... could assert with truth that "the self-governing colonies are recognized as possessing the right to define their respective fiscal relations to all countries." But Canada as yet took no step toward assuming a share in her own naval defense, though the Australasian colonies made a beginning, along colonial rather than national lines, by making a money contribution ...
— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton
... legislative regulation of hours downward is the attempt to regulate wages upward in the case of certain low-paid wage-workers. The modern[9] movement for the minimum wage began in Victoria in 1896, and it soon extended to nearly all the other Australasian states. Great Britain applied the plan in 1910 to industries in which wages were exceptionally low. The plan was first adopted in the United States by Massachusetts in the year 1912, tho in an emasculated form, and spread ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter


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