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977-Untitled typeset speech on Federation with handwritten emendations, 1900.

Among other issues of Federation, Barton discusses Australia’s close ties to the British Empire, the impediment of intercolonial tax to a federated nation, the importance of a united Commonwealth defence force in the face of invasion, and his belief in the regulation of immigrants.

 

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