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Henery parkes is born in warwickshire england.
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He arrives in Sydney as a poor immigrant, and he is working in lots of differint jobs
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Parkes is active in theanti-transportion movement and he starts a new newspaper
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Henry Parkes uses his newspaper 'the Empire' and promotes Federation
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Parkes is elected to the NSW paliament. but he has to stand down from parliament becaused he is declared bankrupt
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Parkes is re-elected then must stand stand down several times during this time he gets in volved in the federation movment
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there were six British colonies in Australia. The main laws of the colonies were made by the British Parliament.
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he begins the first of his five terms as NSW premeir. he reforms the hospital system and he establiches free public education in NSW
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after the colonies developing sepratly they became more unifiedduring the 1870's and 1880's. they were devolping faster and comunication was much easier
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during the 1880'sthree european (Germany, france and russia) showed a interst in south western , australia feared they would attack and that they would try to occupy Australia
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In melbourne, the gold rushes had broughtgreat wealth to Victoria and New South Wales and that meant that they were wealtheir then other colonies
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british Parliment passes an act to Constitute the Federal council Australlia
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in 1888, a British militry expert from England was sent to report on defence he reported that armed forces were to smalland that the only solution was to combind them
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Parkes gives a famous speech at tenter feild for the federation
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at tenterfeild sir henry Parkes had called for a meetingof all premeirs . they met in Feburary1890, and representatives from New Zealand which was thinking of joining the federation came
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a confrence in melbourne was held to discuss the national Convention
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idea of federation was beginning to become more popular
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convention to discuss federation with premeirs and representitives from New Zealand held in Melbourne
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Parkes loses trhe pe\remiership ,but remains in parliment until 1895. in 1891, he is hair of the premiers conventiom, at which a draft constitution is written
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The First National Australasian Convention held in Sydney
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Sir Edmund Barton sets up a Federation Lee (that is a club)
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another convention was held in Sydney
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Began work on Aus consti
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hard times across australia drew people's attention away from federation for seven years but they had a confrence for the pro-federation
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federation consitution redrafting was one of the confrence about
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1897-1898 natinal Australian
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referendum was held to vote on the contrast
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revise contitutiton to meet confrence of the three coloines
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Henry Parkes dies, in November People's Federal Convention held in Bathurst
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Corowa Convention was held
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referendum QLD and WA did not particapate NSW didn't aprove it