Essays Tagged: "Henry Parkes"

"Describe the benefits the colonies gained from federation, and discuss the impact that federation had on the typical Australian"

ed up business opportunities for this class. An egalitarian society was born.Before federation, Sir Henry Parkes, had discussed the necessity in securing the borders, of the nation. There was a fear o ...

(3 pages) 75 1 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

How we cme about to having federation

ite of all the difficulties that occurred in the process of federation, the work of men such as Sir Henry Parkes helped to overcome these problems, and eventually in 1901 the six colonies of Australia ... cause of the support that we got from the English in writing our constitution, and the ideas of Sir Henry Parkes and others like him. The fact that the people of Australia didn't want to be completely ...

(2 pages) 46 1 4.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Reasons for Australian Federation

also played a large role. Eighteen years after the ANA was formed, in 1889, the premier of NSW, Sir Henry Parkes, called for a convention on Federation. This speech, "The Tenterfield Oration", sparked ...

(3 pages) 14840 0 3.9 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

The Federating of Australia

mmittees, emerged in the colonies to look into federation. In 1867, at an intercolonial conference, Henry Parkes suggested that there should be a 'Federal Council', a type of incomplete federal arrang ... ctorian barrister Charles Gavan Duffy appointed a Royal commission to look into Federation.By 1880, Henry Parkes was premier of New South Wales and at another intercolonial conference, he again propos ...

(4 pages) 73 1 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australian Federation

derations which had emerged around the world, notably the United States, Canada and Switzerland.Sir Henry Parkes, then the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, first proposed a Federal Council body ...

(3 pages) 25 0 3.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australian Federationdiscuss Arguments Used For and Against the Idea of Federation in the Late Nineteenth Century.

s for federation was to achieve a united defence force, which could protect Australia. In 1883, Sir Henry Parkes quoted, "If Australia could have spoken with one voice, New Guinea would have belonged ... of the nineteenth century was a considerable factor in securing a federated Australia. In 1891, Sir Henry Parkes said, "Aren't we not one people…one destiny?" In the 1870s, the percentage of th ...

(3 pages) 39 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers