2001/09/01 by Peter Marshall · 5 citations
Social Sciences · #Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
paper · doi:10.1080/00358530120082823
openalex publication_date 2001/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The 75th anniversary of the 1926 Imperial Conference in London—almost coinciding, as it does, with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane—is an appropriate moment to look again at the work of the Conference and to assess its significance for the subsequent evolution of the Commonwealth. This article surveys the context in which the Imperial Conference of 1926 met; describes the work of the Balfour Committee and the developments leading to the Statute of Westminster; analyses the outcome; and finally offers some reflections from the standpoint of the 21st century.