jan 1, 1901 - Federation of Australia

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When the word went around about federation in the mid-19th century the idea was dogged by the lack of popular support for the action. During the 1890s, a number of meetings were held to try and develop a constitution for the Commonwealth. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, delivered a speech on the 24th of October 1889 at the Tenterfield School of Arts on the need for the Australian colonies to federate into one big nation.

The Federation of Australia began on the 1st of January 1901 and was the very long process where at the time the six separate British self-governing colonies of Australia which was Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia complied to coalesced and form the Commonwealth of Australia. The six different sates entrenched a system of federalism in Australia. After this period, the newly elected Australian prime minister was Edmund Barten and the first general election on 29–30 March 1901. At the Time Several different colonies, for example, Fiji and New Zealand were originally part of this procedure but then decided not to join the federation and stay as there separate colonies. Following Federation, the six colonies agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation, not just the state. On the 1st of January 1901, the Constitution of Australia was written, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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