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Australian Federation
This is when Australia first thought of being its own country. people thought that they were being a copy of england. Another reason Australia wanted to become its own country was because the Australians had to pay a tax every time they crossed the boarder. If they didn't have their own army and air force someone could attack and they would have to wait for the england army to get there to fight. they wanted australia to only be white -
Australian Federation
Australia realised they needed a flag. They thought up a compitition for "the best designed flag" and some creative people entered. some smart person came up with the design we have today on our flag. -
Australian Federation
there was six colonies in australia, colonies are what states used to be. the main laws in the colonies were made by the british parlament. -
Australian federation
they needed to get the message through to everyone. the real work needed to start. soon but how would they get the message through to everyone. -
Australian Federation
this is when australia started to become "australia" in songs and poems.they were starting to get known as australian at this point instead of Britans. -
Australian Federation
Everyone started working on all the things that made the word started to get around to people about federation. buildings were built, the flag was created and everything had to be sorted out with the government, so everyone was buisy -
Australian Federation
each colony had its own set of laws and its own defence force. they were all different and had different just about everything the one thing they all had in common was that none of them wanted black people in their country. -
Australian Federation
this is when australia elected their own government. the big decisions were still made in britain. Britain was where they were still part of at this stage, they wern't yet their own country. -
Australian Federation
almost everyone had found out about federation and they thought it was a pretty awesome idea. -
Australian Federation
they held a meeting to discuss federation. each colony sent 7 people. they started to write down the rules of how the nations parlament will work. -
Australian Federation
everyone decided they definately wanted federation to happenexcept western australia and Queensland. thse two countries didn't think that federation was the best idea. -
Australian Federation
People's attention spans grew away from australian federation and they had a vote on whether they wanted to have federation after all. the smaller colonies were worried that the bigger colonies would get a bigger say on whether they wanted federation or not.they decided to keep going with the Federation -
Australian Federation
thy got a note signed by queen victoria saying they were definately going to become one country. everyone was excited. all the colonies became states to commonwealth australia. -
Australian Federation
meanwhile, there was a gold rush in Western Australia and the Western Australians started to change their minds about Federation. a few months later they voted towards Federation. -
Australian Federation
everything was finished and everyone was proud. they had all worked hard and they got a lot out of it. australia was now its own country! everything had been worked out and made. all there was left to do was to open everything up. -
Australian Federation
The first parlament house open at this moment. It opened in Melborne. -
Ausralian Federation
this is when the first parlament was opened. The first parlament was opened in Melborne. All six colonies were now one whole country. -
Australian Federation
they were opening a few buildings at this stage and the first people were going in to the new buildings and exploring what was inside. -
Australian Federation
everything was done except for the last of the buildings that were being built.everyone was very proud of the work they had put in to make Federation possible. -
Australian Federation
People decided to put in a new commonwealth parlament called the old parlament house. They put it in Canberra. -
Australian Federation
the last of the builbings were being opened letting people explore what australi is now like. they were very happy to see what had been done to australia. -
Australian Federation
everything had been opened and australia was its own country. nothing else had been planned for federation. This is the end of federation.
