People and Places Road to Federation Celebrations and Futures
Investigation Primary source Investigation Primary source material, Investigation Primary source material focus questions material and data focus questions data and biographies focus questions
Who were the people of Population data from the What were the Extracts of reports on What were the official Newspaper extracts the Australian colonies? Australian Yearbook, 1908. arguments for Federation? Parkes’ Tenterfield speech, celebrations on 1 January reporting on the 1889; cartoons, 1889; 1901 like? celebrations; photos; map extract from Barton’s of procession route; lyrics, What was life like in the Extracts about city and resolution at the National ‘God Save the Queen’ and Australian colonies in the country Australia; images Australasian Convention ‘Advance Australia Fair’. late 1800s? of Sydney, Adelaide and in Adelaide, 1897. Melbourne in the late How did Australians Ode to Commonwealth 1890s; cartoon about inter- How did the people Extract from 1893 Australian feel about their new Day, a poem by George colonial travel from the of the colonies become Federal Congress Bill, 1894; Commonwealth and nation? Essex Evans. Australian Sketcher. involved in Federation? cartoon ‘Britannia (to New South Wales)’, 1893. How was the opening Newspaper extracts of Parliament celebrated in reporting on the How did the people of Extracts of reports from The Who were some of the Biographies of delegates Melbourne? celebrations; invitation the colonies feel about being Brisbane Courier on Jubilee prominent figures on the to the 1897–98 Federal to the celebratory part of the British Empire? celebrations in London road to Federation? Convention; biography of reception; extract from the and in Queensland, 1897; Catherine Helen Spence. Australian Constitution; map of the British Empire, (Reference to the nine Values photo of the citizens’ arch; 1886; photo of Jubilee for Australian Schooling painting of the Opening of celebrations in Australia may also be helpful.)* Parliament. (Students also and the Tour of the Colonies research the role of the board game. What were the issues Selected clauses of Governor-General today.1) that had to be resolved the draft Constitution; How did the people of Membership certificate before the colonies could Suffrage League petition, What kind of national Students use understandings the colonies see their future of the Australian Natives federate? 1897; newspaper, speech monument should gained through previous as Australians? Association (ANA); and diary extracts about commemorate Federation? investigations together newspaper report on the the Constitution and with their own ideas formation of an ANA branch Federation cartoon, 1898. and research. in Brisbane, 1885; sketch of an ANA meeting, 1883; What role did national Extracts from speeches cartoon, 1855; extract from identity have in influencing and newspaper reports, The Bulletin, 1890. Federation? 1898; poem Men of Australia; campaign poster ‘To the Australian Born’; How did democracy Extracts of arguments referendum results. 1 www.gg.gov.au expand in the colonies for and against women’s during the time of suffrage; ‘Just out of reach’ Where would the capital Extracts of the debate at * See Useful websites in Teacher Guide Federation? cartoon; cartoon from The of the Commonwealth of the National Australasian Worker, 1900. Australia be located? Convention’s Melbourne session, 1898.
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