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Sir Earl Grey proposes federation
Sir Earl Grey proposes a loose colonial federation -
telegraphs link 3 cities
Telegraphs link Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide to communicate with each other -
laws from British to Australia
Laws for British colonies in Australia are made in Britain -
main cities linked by telegraph
All main Australian cities linked by telegraph so they can figure out what is going on -
census
First Australian wide census. Aboriginal people were excluded -
preparing constitution
Federal council formed to start Preparing constitution for federation -
first constitition
First federal constitution in is held Sydney -
lots of refferendums
Referendums are held number of times with varying results of yes and no -
SAir Henry parkes delivers famous speech
Sir Henry Parks delivers his famous speech that makes him on the 5 dollar note famous speech -
queen signs constitution
queen victoria signs Australian constitution referrendum passes in Western Australia -
Commonwealth of parliament and Australia
commenwealth of Australia proclaimed on 1st january, first commenwealth parliament