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Between 1870 and 1890 average income per person in Australia was more than 50 per cent higher than that of the United States, giving Australia one of the highest living standards in the world. [31] The size of the government sector almost doubled from 10 per cent of national expenditure in 1850 to 19 per cent in 1890.
Each of the Australian colonies gained responsible government between 1855 and 1890, and while the Colonial Office in London retained control of some affairs, and the colonies were still firmly within the British Empire, the Governors of the Australian colonies were required to raise their own colonial militias.
The first Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition was a series of exhibitions inspired by the historic Great Exhibition held in London in 1851. The Colony of New South Wales mounted its first such exhibition in 1854 in preparation for the Paris Exhibition of 1855, another in 1861 in preparation for the London Exhibition of 1862, [1] and then several more until being held annually throughout the 1870s ...
Caerleon, located in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, was the first Queen Anne-style home in Australia.It is listed on the Register of the National Estate. [1] [2]Federation architecture is the architectural style in Australia that was prevalent from around 1890 to 1915. [3]
New South Wales Naval Brigade. At the time of the Boxer Rebellion, naval brigades from New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, were part of the British contingent in the field force under General Alfred Gaselee, in the Gaselee Expedition, a successful relief by a multinational military force that in 1900 marched to Beijing and protect the diplomatic legations and foreign nationals in ...
Fighting between Aboriginal people and settlers in colonial Queensland was more bloody than in any other colonial state in Australia, perhaps partly due to Queensland having a larger pre-contact indigenous population than any other colony in Australia, accounting for over one third, and in some estimates close to forty percent, of the entire pre-contact population of the continent.
14 January – Sir George Pearce, Western Australian politician (d. 1952) 17 May – Sir Newton Moore, 8th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1936) 1 November – Christopher Brennan, poet, scholar and literary critic (d. 1932) 21 November – Joe Darling, cricketer (d. 1946) 26 December – Norman Ewing, 23rd Tasmanian Opposition Leader (d. 1928)
[55] [56] However, as Australia enjoyed a period of economic prosperity during the 1870s-80s, the Melbourne-style terrace house gained popularity across the rest of Australia, including in Sydney. These 'Boom Style' terraces were built in a highly embellished Italianate style often employing eclectic elements as diverse as Gothic gables and ...