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  2. Timeline of Australian history - Wikipedia

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    1835. 30 August. John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner established a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne. William Wentworth established Australian Patriotic Association, Australia's first political party, to demand democracy for New South Wales.

  3. Constitutional history of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Constitutional history of Australia is the history of Australia's foundational legal principles. Australia's legal origins as a nation state began in the colonial era, with the reception of English law and the lack of any regard to existing Indigenous legal structures. As the colonies expanded, Australia gradually began to achieve de facto ...

  4. Politics of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australia portal. v. t. e. The politics of Australia operates under the written Australian Constitution, which sets out Australia as a constitutional monarchy, governed via a parliamentary democracy in the Westminster tradition. Australia is also a federation, where power is divided between the federal government and the states and territories.

  5. Template:Politics of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Template documentation. This template's initial visibility currently defaults to collapsed, meaning that it is hidden apart from its title bar. To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{Politics of Australia|state=expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible. {{Politics of Australia ...

  6. History of Australia (1945–present) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The history of Australia since 1945 has seen long periods of economic prosperity and the introduction of an expanded and multi-ethnic immigration program, which has coincided with moves away from Britain in political, social and cultural terms and towards increasing engagement with the United States and Asia.

  7. Timeline of Australian elections - Wikipedia

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    The background colour indicates which party won the election. All six states and both territories have established limits on the length of a parliamentary term, with the federal parliament limited to three years, and all state and territorial parliaments limited to a four-year term.

  8. Constitution of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of Australia (also known as the Commonwealth Constitution) is the fundamental law that governs the political structure of Australia. It is a written constitution, that establishes the country as a federation under a constitutional monarchy governed with a parliamentary system. Its eight chapters sets down the structure and ...

  9. History of Australia (1901–1945) - Wikipedia

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    Australia portal. v. t. e. The history of Australia from 1901 to 1945 begins with the federation of the six colonies to create the Commonwealth of Australia. The young nation joined Britain in the First World War, suffered through the Great Depression in Australia as part of the global Great Depression and again joined Britain in the Second ...