And now the Federation of Australia, which is the natural evolution of FRANKLIN's idea, not only reveals with added force his knowledge of the British Constitution, but it shows how clearly the ...

1895–1903: Australia’s worst drought since European settlement. The Federation drought affected almost all of Australia and is widely considered the most destructive in our recorded history, based on ...

However, the total vote throughout the State revealed a majority of more than two to one in favor of federation, and Western Australia thus became an original State in what the preamble to the Act ...