Discuss the arguments for and against the Federation of Australia. Use Source D in your response. Source D: Henry Parkes speech “Instead of a confusion of names and geographical divisions, which so perplexes many people at a distance, we shall be Australians, and a people with 7,000 miles of coast, more than 2,000,000 square miles of land, with 4,000,000 of population, and shall present ourselves to the world as ‘Australia’.”

Discuss the arguments for and against the Federation of Australia. Use Source D in your response. Source D: Henry Parkes speech “Instead of a confusion of names and geographical divisions, which so perplexes many people at a distance, we shall be Australians, and a people with 7,000 miles of coast, more than 2,000,000 square miles of land, with 4,000,000 of population, and shall present ourselves to the world as ‘Australia’.”