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Federation of Australia - Part 1: 1840-1879
The process to federate the six Australian colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia took over fifty years from its beginnings in the 1840s
Federation of Australia - Part 2: 1880-1900
The 1880s proved to be 'the turning point at which the 'federal idea' found in all the schemes of the previous forty years would be transformed into the Federation movement'
Federation timeline
Significant events in the 50 year process to federate the six Australian colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia, 1846-2001