Australian Federation

By __Lukeoooo

  • Captain cook finds Australia

    Captain cook finds Australia and landed in Botany Bay

  • Crossing colonies

    When you cross colonies you had to pay a tax and they had to check your bags

  • The Goldrush

    The Australian Goldrush started

  • British colonies

    Six british colonies in Australia. Laws were made by the british parliament

  • Telegraph

    Telegraph lines linked the colonies

  • Convetion in melbourne

  • Convention in Sydney

  • Confrence of pro-federation group

    Decide to let people to vote for federation

  • Convention

    Qld didnt support the fedration and they didnt go to the convention

  • Australia becomes a country

  • First Aus priminister

  • Governer general

    Lord hopetoun became the first Governer general

  • Celebration for federation

    Australian celebrated federation with a huge parade

  • First Parliament opens

    The first commonwealth Parliament was opened in Melbourne.

  • First Australian flag

    The first Austrlian flag was picked through a contest

  • Australias capital declared

    Camberra was declared Australias capital territory

  • temperary parliament

    Commentwealth parliament first sat in canberra in the 9temerary) Parliament House

  • Advance Australia Fiar

    Advance Australia Fair was made our national anthem

  • New parliament house

    On 10 May 1988 Commonwealth Parliament sat in the new Parliament House in Canberra.

  • Aboriginal flag

    aboriginal flagged was astabilished