Essay On Australian Federation

On the 1st of January 1901, six British colonies were legalised by the British parliament to govern as a part of the Australian Federation. With the legalisation of unification also held the birth of national independence of Australia. Under a federal system, powers were divided between a central government and several regional governments. Power was divided between the federal government and the governments of the six colonies, which were renamed 'states' by the Constitution. One of the first pieces of legislation passed in the new Federal Parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act. Now known as the infamous White Australia Policy. This immigration restriction made it significantly difficult for Asians and Pacific Islanders to migrate to Australia.

It is well recognised that World War 1 was a traumatic experience for the Australian nation. It claimed 60,000 young lives and another 156,000 men were wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner. But when the trauma abated, it became apparent that Australian society had been changed permanently and positively. Some of the gains realised by Australia as a result of her involvement in WWI included a newfound maturity as a nation, the respect and recognition of other nations, new opportunities for trade and industry, a greater recognition of women’s rights and a massive economic and population boost due to post war immigration programs. This web-site has been created to show you some of the benefits of World War One on Australia.

Federation is one of the most important parts of Australian history. It is the time when we came with the term Australian, when we became a nation, got the right to vote, speak more freely, live more freely. Federation has made how we are today. It has changed history forever. Federation is the joining of states or colonies to become one nation. ‘For 20 years the issue of Federation domination political discussion between colonies till January 1st 1901, that was when the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed’.

Will Australia become a republic in the next twenty years? This is a difficult question to speculate on. The main area of law governing this issue is section 128 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (U.K). Other issues in this debate are regarding appointment, termination and the powers to be awarded to the proposed Head of State, and the impact the change will have on the States. Examining the history of Australian Legislative powers, and reasons why Australians would want to change, is also useful when speculating on this issue.

There was a huge influence of people to the Victorian goldfields, but businessmen, tradesmen, labourers - the very backbone of Australia, together with many of the state's own administrators abandoned their jobs to go and mine for gold. This caused many people to lose their jobs, and no one could fill them in. After the gold rush there were many moreNew rules, policies and legislation were implemented, giving Australia more of an understanding of how to draft future legislation and, indeed, its own constitution.

In under three months, a crucial meeting of federal and state leaders will start to determine whether anything major is achieved from the present White Paper process on Reform of the Australian Federation.

Henry Parkes was a major person in process of Federating Australia. He first announced his idea of Federation to the public during the tenterfield Oration in 1889. In his speech he stated 6 major problems that Federation would fix. The 6 issues were that rail gauges were different for each colony and supplies had to be moved from train to train, each colonies

Analyze the political, social, and economic continuities and changes in Australia from 1700 AD to the present. While Australia has politically gained independence since the 1700’s, their ethnicities have shifted to create a socially diverse country as they remain closely tied with the rest of the world in regards to global trade. Since Britain used to rule Australia in the 1700’s, Australia since has had revolutions that granted them political independence from a larger ruling body. This provides freedom for all of the inhabitants in Australia from an outside force. In addition to this, the ethnicities of Australia have been allowed to mix with those of the rest of the world as new people join the society of

Gold rushes were constantly popping up in areas of Australia, and once one was starting to get dry of gold, it was a race to the next. Around the 1850’s Australia made a significant establishment of the first royal mint made outside of England, this was placed in Sydney. Between 1851 and 1861 Australia produced a third of the worlds gold. WA had major gold deposits and since they had not formed in to the common wealth they had little say. With the new found wealth that the gold had brought Western Australia was being left out of the conversation in having no say on the wealth of the gold and introducing more people in to their area they decided to become a part of the commonwealth.

In 1901, the six British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia. Several factors including defence and immigration, railways and nationalism contributed to the federation of 1901 when Australia was officially declared an independent nation separate from Britain with an independent government.

The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 and was still a young nation. Regarding the war, the new found of nation didn’t have sufficient funds to participate in the First World War. Federal income tax was then introduced in 1915 to fund Australia 's efforts and participation, this meant that

The cause of a republic is simply, purely, patriotic. We love this country, and its people, so much that I believe our head of state should be one of us- an Australian qualified not by their dynasty, but by their citizenship to our country, Australia. Right now our head of state is the head of state of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth.

A federation, also known as a federal state, is a political union of small self-governing states or regions under a central government. A federal system government in which power is shared between the national and state governments. When our Forefathers establish the constitution they stated that the States should govern themselves. When the Constitution started to settled up the individual states had more power, than the feds.The states lost all the power after the civil war. People believe that the civil war started because of the feds , in the end of the war society believed it was a good idea to give more powers to the federal government. The Federal Government was to have limited powers. Federalism allows both states and feds to

Nationalism can be both positively and negatively influential when shaping a view of the world. It excludes and includes, builds and tears down nations and creates and breaks relations with other nations. Nationalism is a constant issue throughout history and is more identifiable today than previously. The most common examples of Nationalism generally refer to the negative representations such as demonstrations against immigration or politicians arguing for the removal or prevention of immigrants entering into the country. Nationalism whether it is positive or negative is still relevant in both national and international politics.

In the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, exists a doctrine called the separation of powers. This doctrine exists to ensure that no single body of government, is in a position to hold all the power in the nation, when making decision’s which can be detrimental to others. Yet at the same time Australia does not use doctrine of separations of powers as strictly as other countries. It is the intention of this essay to see how the doctrine of separations of power operates in Australia, then compare it to another country. To see how it operates there and to view differences and similarities which exist between these two countries.