2000-12-31 04:00:00 PDT Australia-- New Year's Day 2001 has an added significance in Australia the world's only continent-size nation turns 100 tomorrow. A grand parade through Sydney will recall ...
When the date January 1, 1901, was chosen, it seemed like a good idea at the time. There is romance in the idea that a new nation, boasting the most modern and democratic constitution devised, might ...
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During the 1890s the Australian colonies were ravaged by unemployment, industrial conflict and misery. Economic conditions became so bad there was a determined attempt to create a different society, a ...
Terry Moran has worked in the senior levels of the Victorian, Queensland and Commonwealth public services. Federation in 1901 is now the middle point between 2014 and the arrival of the First Fleet in ...
Produced to celebrate the Jubilee of Federation Cavalcade of Australia provides an historical review of the development of the nation between 1901 and 1951 The film opens with the visit of the Duke ...