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Federation - Australia's Culture PortalThe Federation Kiosk, Centennial Park, Sydney at the Proclamation of Federation, 1 January 1901. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. The movement had begun to gather real momentum after Henry Parkes wrote to the other premiers in 1889 an...
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Powerhouse Museum Collection (website Powerhouse Museum )irn=238285&search=flags&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=152798&search=flags&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=9483&search=flags&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/data...
irn=176675&search=federation&site_id=3 > A2778-823 Beaker, Australian Federation Commemorative Ware, earthenware, made by Doulton & Co, Burslem, England, 1901 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=176675&search=federation&site_id=3...
>User keywords, or 'tags', are words added to object records by other users to enhance their discovery. >>We are experimenting with tagging because sometimes museums describe objects in language that is highly specialist and user added keywords are usefu...
Compass: (1 May 2005, ABC TV) __________________________________________________________ Bruce Redman certainly had a lot of foresight to record and shoot the formation and campaign of the Family First Party (Redman 2005). The final version of Family Fir...
Click on 'detail' for links to the Australia National Bibliographic Database catalogue entry (and where to find this item), and to discover which other Australian Dictionary of Biography articles reference these resources. Deakin, A., The Federal Story, 2...
Also included in some cases are sources for the life of the subject that have become available since the article was first published. Click on 'detail' for links to the Australia National Bibliographic Database catalogue entry (and where to find this ite...
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816 - 1903), by unknown engraver, 1877, courtesy of La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria. DUFFY, Sir CHARLES GAVAN (1816-1903), Irish nationalist and Victorian statesman, was born on 12 April 1816 in Monaghan, I...
SAWERS, JOHN (1842-1906), banker, was born on 29 January 1842 at Stirling, Scotland, son of John Sawers and his wife Jane Weir, n~®e Wilson. On the strong recommendation of E. S. Parkes, the bank's superintendent, the court of directors appointed Sawers ...
A. A. Baker, Hugh Mahon's Expulsion From Parliament (B.A. Hons thesis, Australian National University, 1967); R. G. Dryen, The Significance of the Expulsion of Hugh Mahon, M.H.R., from the Federal Parliament, 12 November 1920 (B.A. Hons thesis, University...
Sir John Waters Kirwan (1869 - 1949), by Swiss Studios, 1900s, courtesy of National Library of Australia. Sir John Kirwan was a member of the Western Australian Historical Society and contributed articles to its journal Early Days. Print Publication Deta...
Sir Alexander Perceval Matheson (1861 - 1929), by Swiss Studios, 1900s, courtesy of National Library of Australia. MATHESON, Sir ALEXANDER PERCEVAL (1861-1929), businessman and politician, was born on 6 February 1861 in Mayfair, London, second son of Sir ...
BENJAMIN, Sir BENJAMIN (1834-1905), merchant, philanthropist, politician and Jewish community leader, was born on 2 September 1834 in London, the eldest son of Moses Benjamin and his wife Catherine, n~®e Moses. Benjamin was also a director of the Colonia...
Sir George Turner (1851 - 1916), by unknown photographer, 1900s, courtesy of National Library of Australia. TURNER, Sir GEORGE (1851-1916), premier and Commonwealth treasurer, was born on 8 August 1851 in Melbourne, son of English migrants Alfred Turner, ...
Sir John William Downer (1843 - 1915), by unknown photographer, courtesy of National Library of Australia. DOWNER, Sir JOHN WILLIAM (1843-1915), lawyer and politician, was born on 6 July 1843 in Adelaide, son of Henry Downer, a tailor who had migrated to ...
WEST, JOHN (1856-1926), journalist, horticulturist and irrigation pioneer, was born on 23 August 1856 at Armstrongs Diggings, Mount Ararat, Victoria, eldest son of English-born Isaac West, goldminer, and his Scottish wife Ann, n~®e McMann. West Bros Nurs...
Sir Samuel Wilson (1832 - 1895), by unknown photographer, courtesy of Herald & Weekly Times Portrait Collection, State Library of Victoria. WILSON, Sir SAMUEL (1832-1895), pastoralist and politician, was born on 7 February 1832 at Ballycloughan, County An...
(A-Z) Solomon, Isaac (Ikey) (1787? SOLOMON, EMANUEL (1800-1873), merchant, was born in London, son of Samuel Moss Solomon, pencilmaker, and his wife Elizabeth, n. Print Publication Details: Eric Richards, 'Solomon, Emanuel (1800 - 1873)', Australian Dict...
Sir Robert Randolph Garran (1867 - 1957), by unknown photographer, 1930s, courtesy of National Library of Australia. There are portraits in oils at Government House, Canberra, at Garran Hall, Australian National University; and in the possession of Mrs Wi...
Votes and Proceedings (Legislative Assembly, New South Wales), 1890; Empire (Sydney), Dec 1856; Senate minutes, 1853-57 (University of Sydney Archives); Edmund Barton papers (State Library of New South Wales); Henry Parkes papers (State Library of New Sou...
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