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An invitation to meet Their Royal Highness the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in celebration of the opening of the first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [1901].
Chromolithograph; 23 x 29 cm.
NLA Call no. PIC S40098

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Federation was brought about by the efforts of many people – politicians, poets, journalists, workers – despite the opposition of an articulate minority. The debates covered many locations, from New South Wales to Western Australia; from the Pacific colonies of Fiji and New Zealand; to the “mother country” of Great Britain; from Tenterfield to Bathurst in NSW and in most of Australia’s colonial capital cities. The ideologies included free trade, protection, land tax, socialism, feminism and environmentalism.