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sir henry parkes
Sir Henry Parkes, then the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, first proposed a Federal Council body in 1867. After it was rejected by the Secretary of the State for the Colonies, the Duke of Buckingham, Parkes brought up the issue again at a conference in 1880, this time as the Premier of New South Wales. At the conference, representatives from Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia considered a number of issues including federation, communication, Chinese immigration, vine diseases a -
sir henry parkes
sir henry parkes premierre of new south wales had an idea to combine western australia, queensland, new south wales, tasmania, victoria and south australia. -
sir samuel griffith
Sir Samuel Griffith identified with great clarity at the Sydney Convention perhaps the greatest problem of all: how to structure the relationship between the lower and upper houses within the Federal Parliament. The main division of opinion centred on the contention of Alfred Deakin, that the lower house must be supreme, as opposed to the views of Edmund Barton, John Cockburn and others, that a strong Senate with co-ordinate powers was essential. Griffith himself recommended that the doctrine of -
sir edmund barton
Sir Edmund Barton was the caretaker Prime Minister of Australia at the inaugural Federal election in 1901, at which he retained his office. This period has lent its name to an architectural style prevalent in Australia at that time, known as Federation architecture, or Federation style
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letter to the queen
sir henry parkes sent a letter to the queen. -
meeting
they had a meeting to check if they all agreed and federation was going to be a thing.
