General Resources
ResourcesHere are the resources for each of the four tasks you need to undertake.
The individual resources are also listed under their task page as well as noted here.
The resources listed here are extensive. You will need to divide them up to cover them all. Some material will be repeated. Documents, stories and images might be used in your later presentation.
Documenting a Democracy
Resources for Federation - hard copy resources
Federation Gallery - National Archive
Federation Images
Stories of Democracy - Australian Electoral History
ABC: Federation Story
Melbourne University Law Review: New Federation History
Federation in South Australia
Workers Online: Federation Day, 1901
Federation and Defending Our Shores (Video clip)
Australian History: Colonisation (1788 - 1900)
Australian Federation, 1901
Steps to Federation: 1883 - 1901
Belonging: Who shaped Australia? A timeline
National Gallery of Australia: Federation: Australian Art and Society: 1901 - 2001
PANDORA ARCHIVE - Australian Archive of Websites
Pandora Archive: The Official Website of the National Council for the Centenary of Federation
Internet Archive - these following websites might be blocked by the school's security system - ask your teacher to retrieve them for you!
National Archives of Australia: Chronology of Federation - starts from 1788.
National Archives of Australia: Chronology: Federation: The Guide to Records (1890 - 1894)
Making a Nation (Tasmanian Federation Online): Life in 1901
State Library of NSW: One People One Destiny: Celebrating the Centenary of Federation (PDF)
Task 2: Sample Essay (Click here)
People
The Threat to Federalism: Rt Hon Sir Harry Gibbs, GCMG, AC, KBE
Making Federalism Flourish by Professor Wolfgang Kasper
Australian Politics.com: Federalism
Blood, sweat, tears and sugar
The individual resources are also listed under their task page as well as noted here.
The resources listed here are extensive. You will need to divide them up to cover them all. Some material will be repeated. Documents, stories and images might be used in your later presentation.
Documenting a Democracy
Resources for Federation - hard copy resources
Federation Gallery - National Archive
Federation Images
Stories of Democracy - Australian Electoral History
ABC: Federation Story
Melbourne University Law Review: New Federation History
Federation in South Australia
Workers Online: Federation Day, 1901
Federation and Defending Our Shores (Video clip)
Australian History: Colonisation (1788 - 1900)
Australian Federation, 1901
Steps to Federation: 1883 - 1901
Belonging: Who shaped Australia? A timeline
National Gallery of Australia: Federation: Australian Art and Society: 1901 - 2001
PANDORA ARCHIVE - Australian Archive of Websites
Pandora Archive: The Official Website of the National Council for the Centenary of Federation
Internet Archive - these following websites might be blocked by the school's security system - ask your teacher to retrieve them for you!
National Archives of Australia: Chronology of Federation - starts from 1788.
National Archives of Australia: Chronology: Federation: The Guide to Records (1890 - 1894)
Making a Nation (Tasmanian Federation Online): Life in 1901
State Library of NSW: One People One Destiny: Celebrating the Centenary of Federation (PDF)
Task 2: Sample Essay (Click here)
People
- Catherine Helen Spence
- Alfred Deakin
- Henry Parkes
- Maybanke Wolstenholme (Anderson)
- Edmund Barton
- Andrew Inglis Clark
- Louisa Lawson
- Rose Scott
- Elizabeth Webb Nicholls
- Mary Lee
- William Ah Ket
- John Christian Watson
- Sir John Forrest
- Joseph Kirby
- Robert Caldwell
- William (Billy) Hughes
- Cardinal Patrick Moran
- Henry Bournes Higgins
- Sir Samuel Griffith
- Mary Malone
The Threat to Federalism: Rt Hon Sir Harry Gibbs, GCMG, AC, KBE
Making Federalism Flourish by Professor Wolfgang Kasper
Australian Politics.com: Federalism
Blood, sweat, tears and sugar