2000-12-31 04:00:00 PDT Australia-- New Year's Day 2001 has an added significance in Australia the world's only continent-size nation turns 100 tomorrow. A grand parade through Sydney will recall ...
When the date January 1, 1901, was chosen, it seemed like a good idea at the time. There is romance in the idea that a new nation, boasting the most modern and democratic constitution devised, might ...
ON THE first day of the twentieth century the six Australian colonies became united as a federal Commonwealth, under a constitution of their own making but formally enacted by the Parliament of the ...
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Fifty years ago this week, Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia. This anniversary gives both nations cause to reflect on our shared histories, as both colony and coloniser. Once separate ...
On the three important issues - the republic, Asia and the Aborigines, all considered important for Australia's contemporary national identity - there has been only halting movement. This is hardly ...
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