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Australian Federation
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John Watson
John Watson was the first labor Prime Minister of Australia -
Australian Cricket
Australia defeated England in cricket. And the Ashes were born -
Sir. H. Parkes
Sir henery Parkes in this year urges the colonies to federate -
Father of federation
Sir Henery Parkes was one of the people to come up with federation. But sadly Sir Henery had past away before his dream came trua -
convention
Convention to discuss federation with premiers and represents from New Zealand held in Melbourne -
Talking about Federation
Throughout the 1890s a number of events were held for people to talk about federation. They worked out details on how they could become a nation and how their govermnent was going to work. -
Idea
Idea of Federation was beginning to become more popular -
covention 2
Another convention was held this year in Sydney -
looking for a constitution
they bagan work on Australia Constitution and looked at those from Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Switzerland -
touch ups
The final touches to Australia's first federal Constitution is completed. -
Delay
some hard times across australia drew people away from federation. But after a couple of years there was a conference that got people back on track. -
conference
A conference was held for pro-federation groups -
Agree or Not
The Australians were allowed for the first time to vote whether or not they agreed with constitution. -
Women Voting
Women of south Australia were allowed to vote. they were the first women in Australia to vote. -
Review
National Australasian convention met to review constitution but Queensland did not send representives as they did bot support federation -
Referendum
A referendum was held to vote on the Constitution. But Queensland and Western Australia refused to participate in it. And not enough people in New South Wales agreed with the idea. -
Rethinking time
The premiers went and revised the constitution some more people would agree with the idea, And so it would meet the concerns of the three colonies. -
The Australian Flag
Australians were invited to enter a competition to design a new flag, with a prize of 200 pounds. There were 32000 entries. All designs had to enclude the union Jack. five people shared a design and shared the prize. -
It's Official
At this time many people in different colonies (states) were excited about federation. So that year the british govermnent agreed to do it. -
Federation
The year Australia officially became a nation. -
celebration
Australia was legally a nation now. Many people across the new nation were celebrating by building arches and dressing up. -
Queen victoria
Queen Victoria past away this year and it was very sad. -
Big Opening
n 13 May 1901, the Australian Federal Parliament was officially opened in Melbourne. It was agreed that the Parliament House of Victoria would be used until the new Capital Territory of Australia was established. -
election
first federal election in accordance with Commonwealth law -
Capitol of Australia
Canberra was chosen as the nation capitol of australia -
Canberra
CAnberra becamie Canberra exactly 100 years ago. because they had to find a place for their parliment house. Since Sydney and melbourne were fighting over it's location.