Focus questions
TaQ1 Which colony is the most in favour of free trade?
TaQ2 What are the supposed benefits of free trade to Queensland?

INTERCOLONIAL FREE TRADE

A movement to which we cannot but wish all success, has commenced almost simultaneously in several of the colonies in favour of intercolonial free trade. Even the insular colonies of New Zealand and Tasmania are eager on the subject. South Australia of course retains all its old fervour... The Government (of Victoria) ... is reported to be inclined towards the proposal ... For New South Wales we have a new Ministry, avowedly free trade in its sympathies; and Queensland, with the growing sugar plantations, would probably be only too happy to find a local market for its tropical production.

Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December, 1868, Cited in Raymond Evans et al., 1901 Our Future's Past, Macmillan, Sydney, p. 157.