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Violence occurs towards Chinese on the Goldfields.
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The Eureka rebellion takes place.
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Men in south Australia get the vote.
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Men in Victoria get the vote.
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Men in New South Whales get to vote.
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There were 6 British colonies in Australia. They could decide some things themselves, but the laws were made in Britain.
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Men in Queensland get the vote.
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This decade is a boom time in Australia
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Each colony was now able to elect Thier own government, but still the big dicisions were made in Britain. People in the colonies were starting to talk about joining together to be one nation instead of six little colonies. Joining together like this is called federation.
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Maritime Workers strike occurs.
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A National Convention to draft the Constitution is held.
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A meeting was held to discuss federation. Each colony sent 7 people. They started to write a constitution which is a list of rules about how the nation's Parliament wil work.
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Men in Western Australia get to vote.
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The Federation groups dicided that the people of Australia should vote to decide if federation take place.
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Women in South Australia get to vote.
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Premiers' Confrences discus Federation.
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Second convention to draft the constitution takes place.
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Meetings descused the draft constitution and made changes and a new draft. Queensland was the only colony that did not send people to the meetings. Because some colonies were much smaller than others, it was decided to have parliament the way the United States did - the number of people from each state in the house of representatives depends on how many people live in the state, but each state has the same number of people in the Senate.People on all of the colonies exept Queensland and Western
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Western Australia voted on the constitution, but in New South Whales they did not agree to what was written and vote failed.
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The first referendum for federation occurs.
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The second referendum for federation occurs. Women in Western Australia get the vote.
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The Premiers met to descus the things that worried those three colonies, and changes were made to the constitution. One change is that there would be a new capital built between Sydney and Melbourne, because both thought they should be the capital city. People in all colonies exept Western Australia voted for the new constitution, and this time it was successful.
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Men in Tasmania get to vote.
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The Western Australians started to change their minds about Federation, and in August they voted to be part of it.
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A committee took the constitution to London to persuade British Parliament to pass a law alowing five colonies to join together to become a nation. The law was passed in May and sighned by Queen Victoria in July saying that on 1st January 1901, New South Whales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania would become states in the commonwealth of Australia.Meanwhile, there was a gold rush in Western Australia and people from all over the country went there to look for gold.
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Australia becomes a nation. The Australian government takes control of all Australian colonial army and naval forces. Australia's population reaches 3 773 801, but Aboriginal peoples are not included in the census. The winning design for the Australian flag is announced.
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Edmund Barton Becomes Australia's first Prime minister.
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On 1st January 1901 the first governor general, Lord Hopetoun, officially declared that there were now six statesforming the commenwealth Australia. The first parliament was opened in Melbourne on 9th May.
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Women get the right to vote in Australian federal elections. Women in New South Whales get the vote in their state.
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Women in Tasmania get the vote. The high court of Australia is formed. Alfred Deakin becomes the second Prime Minister of Australia.
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The Conciliation and Arbitration court is formed.
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Women in Queensland get the vote. Deakin became Prime Minister for the second time
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Australia becomes responsible for British New Guinea.
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Women in Victoria get the vote. The site of the national capital is chosen.Andrew Fisherbecomes Prime Minister.
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The Commonwealth bank is set up.
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The royal Australian Navy is formaly established.
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Prime Minister Fisher commits Australian forces to fighting in World War 1.
