Original sentence: He remained Minister for Home Affairs until Charles Kingston left the cabinet, and became Minister for Trade and Customs in his stead on 7 August 1903.He was responsible for the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 (preceded the Commonwealth Electoral Act), including the introduction of women's suffrage and the establishment of the Commonwealth Public Service.Lyne became Minister for Home Affairs in his cabinet on 1 January 1901 and was elected to the first federal Parliament as member for the Division of Hume in March 1901
Edited sentence: He remained Minister for Home Affairs until Kingston left the cabinet, and became Minister for Trade and Customs in his stead on 7 August 1903.He was responsible for the Commonwealth Electoral Act, including the introduction of women's suffrage and the establishment of the Commonwealth Public Service.Lyne became Minister for Home Affairs in his cabinet on 1 January 1901 and was elected to the first federal Parliament as member for the Hume in March 1901.Some of his speeches were scarcely tactful or reasonable, but he showed prescience in his statement that it is "a peculiarity of the British race that it rarely, if ever, foresees, or is found prepared to meet, those greater emergencies which periodically mark the record of every nation in history.With characteristic confidence, it ignores the most potent warnings, trusting to blunder through somehow or other"