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1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Dinner with the Founding Fathers -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Synopsis -- Foreword By Tony Windsor -- Creation, Crisis and Legacy -- The Call to Federation -- Book One The Anniversary Dinner -- Guests -- Visitors -- Eminent Absentees -- Absent Legends -- Historic Milestones on the Dinner Agenda -- Host -- A Quiet Drink in the Gun Room -- Powerful Duo -- Three Musketeers -- The Huge Shadow of Andrew Clark -- The 'Also Ran' -- The Man from Chile -- A Scottish Coal Miner -- Agenda -- The Guests Make an Entrance -- The Premiers -- The Believers |
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The Judge and the Reformer -- The Bushman's Champion -- The Prime Minister -- Drinks -- The Tenterfield Legend -- Affable Alfred -- Death of the Aristocrats -- Minister for Five Days -- Entrée -- Lucinda Sails into History -- Author of the Original Constitution -- The Great Negotiator -- Main -- New South Wales Votes Twice -- Free Settlers Have Their Say -- Radical Federalist -- Second Colony -- State of Isolation -- Kalgoorlie Saves the Day -- Workers Versus Capitalists -- Act of God -- Battle of Westminster -- Drinks at the Reform Club -- Capitalising on the Jubilee -- The Lure of a Republic |
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Taking a Shot at Royalty -- Half Time -- Passionate Dissenter -- Aspirants -- Birth of Murdoch Media -- The Chief Justice Gets Political -- Dessert -- Hopeless Hopetoun -- Who Was Guilty? -- The Villain Was Affable Alfred -- Slippery Sam Is Slammed -- Tasmania Misses Out -- The Great Day -- Voters Have Their Say -- Royals Add Their Blessing -- Flaws in the Constitution -- Coffee, Tea, Chocolates, Port, Cigars -- How Successful Was Federation? -- Suffragettes -- 'The Man in the Street' Takes Over -- The Convict and the Australian Dream -- Goodnight -- Elusive Preamble -- Creating Small States |
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Team Players -- Cheers for Toby -- Loner -- Confession of Slippery Sam -- How Do We Solve the Problem of the Senate? -- The Believers Continue the Good Fight -- Cheers for the Founders -- White Australia -- All Whites and All Blacks -- Forgotten Fijians -- Relentless Murdoch -- The Essential Giles -- Fisher Speaks for the Nation -- Jeannie -- Book Two Ninety Years Later -- Guests -- Visitors -- Towering Presence -- The Host -- The Importance of Taking Charge -- Drinks -- Arthur Phillip -- Chairman Zelman Examines John Kerr -- Sins of the Senate -- Creating More States -- Main |
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Sins of the Fathers -- Indigenous Australia -- White Australia -- State Rights -- The Brits -- Coffee -- The Former Chief Justice -- Republic -- Who Is Eligible to Sit in Parliament? -- Changing the Constitution -- The Search for a Preamble -- Farewell -- The Historian -- Homeward Bound -- Ponsonby -- Old Soldiers Never Die -- Life Was Not Meant to Be Easy -- The Anonymous Barton -- Book Three Epilogue -- The Challenge -- Barton -- Bird -- Deakin -- Fisher -- Forrest -- Griffith -- Kingston -- Lyne -- Reid -- Watson -- Lucinda -- Cowen -- Fraser -- Whitlam -- Barwick and Clark |
| Summary |
Few Australians have any awareness of how their nation was established on 1 January 1901 when six self-governing British colonies joined together as one nation. It was achieved after a dozen years of superb negotiations in which Federation conventions drafted and agreed on a splendid constitution which was approved by six colonial parliaments, six referendums in which ordinary Australians had their say, negotiations in London to have the British parliament gave its approval and finally gain the agreement of a difficult Queen Victoria who wanted the six colonies to become counties of England. Above all, it was achieved without violence, unlike their counterparts in USA. Everald Compton has now written a vivid account of it all as he creates a dinner held ten years after Federation in which the founding fathers relive the great political and legal battles they fought and the huge parochial attitudes they overcame to create a nation. It is one of those books which makes you stay awake to turn the next page. More importantly, it will get you thinking about the changes that are needed to the Constitution 120 years after Federation to make it relevant to a hugely different and rapidly changing world |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Giants of History |
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Regional & national history.
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HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
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History -- Australia & New Zealand.
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Politics and government
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Australia -- History -- 1788-1900.
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Australia -- Politics and government -- To 1900.
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781528918787 |
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1528918789 |
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