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The Federation of Australian Historical Societies (FAHS) is the peak body for historical societies throughout Australia. [1] [2] It has eight constituent members, one in each of the Australian states and internal self-governing territories. It lobbies governments on behalf of the sector and has formed alliances with other related bodies.
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in ...
Australian Society for Sports History; Australian Society for the Study of Labour History; C. Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations; F.
The Royal Australian Historical Society, formerly Australian Historical Society, is a voluntary organisation founded in Sydney, Australia in 1901 [1] [2] with Andrew Houison as founding president. [3] Its goals are to encourage the study of and interest in Australian history. It has a membership throughout Australia and many of its activities ...
The Trust was established as a body corporate under the David Tonkin government in 1981 by the History Trust of South Australia Act 1981.This Act repealed the Constitutional Museum Act 1978, but does not affect the operation of the South Australian Museum Act 1976 (which governs the South Australian Museum), nor the later Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 or Heritage Places Act 1993.
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
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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 World War against Nazi Germany in 1939.