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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
List of prime ministers of Australia; No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Constituency Election (Parliament) Term of office Political party Ministry Monarch Governor-General Ref. Took office Left office Time in office 1 Edmund Barton (1849–1920) MP for Hunter, NSW: 1901 (1st) 1 January 1901 24 September 1903 2 years, 266 days Protectionist ...
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 ...
The diplomatic history of Australia encompasses the historical events surrounding Australian foreign relations. Following the global change in the dynamics of international state of affairs in the 20th century, this saw a transition within Australia's diplomatic situation to broaden outside of exclusively commonwealth and western European nations.
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.