People and Places Road to Federation Celebrations and Futures
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How did distance and Students use internet What issues led some Newspaper extracts from How was Federation Reports of Perth’s isolation affect Western and library research to Western Australians The West Australian, 1890s. celebrated in Perth? Federation celebrations Australians? explore Western Australia’s to oppose or doubt from The West Australian isolation in the late 1800s, Federation? newspaper, 2 January particularly the Western 1901. Petition to the Queen from Australian Government What concerns about residents of the goldfields, How did Western Reports from The West website1. Federation were important to the communities seeking separation; ‘A Australians outside Perth Australian newspaper, 2 of Western Australia’s Federal Fairy Tale’, satirical celebrate Federation? January 1901; Western What happened in 1890–99 statistics for goldfields? newspaper piece (both Australian referendum Western Australia in the late Western Australia’s 1900). results. 1800s and what were the population and for exports impacts on the colony? (gold, timber and wool); What if Western Sections from the What was the Union, a poem written two photos of Fremantle Australia had decided not Australian Constitution. significance of Federation in honour of Federation, Harbour showing change to join in Federation? for Western Australians? published in The West from 1880s to 1900s. Australian newspaper, Should the people of Selections from Western 2 January 1901. Western Australia have Australian Parliamentary What problems and Storekeepers and butchers’ had a say in the colony’s Debates, 1899. How should Western Students use challenges resulted from letter, 1893; extract from decision about Federation? Australians commemorate understandings gained Henry Lawson’s comments the Western Australian Federation now and into through previous on the ‘curse’ of gold, written gold rush? How was Federation Referendum promotional the future? investigations together Perth 1896; photo of mining promoted, and what were material and results; map with their own ideas settlement, 1894. the results of the Western of Western Australian and research. Australian referendum? electoral districts, 1900. Who were some Biographies of four people influential citizens in participating in different Western Australia ways in Western Australian in the late 1800s? society and politics in the late 1800s: Edith Cowan, Faiz Mohamed, John Kirwan and William Marmion.
Who was John Forrest Biography of Sir John and what were his Forrest, first Premier of contributions to Western Western Australia. Australia?
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