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30 January – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893. [1] 4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland. [2] 14 June – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others. Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms; Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
The Corowa Conference was a meeting of Federationists, held in 1893 in the New South Wales border town of Corowa, which debated the proposed federation of Australian colonies. Although patchily attended and without any immediate consequence, the 'road map' to Federation devised at the Conference was ultimately highly influential.
19th Assembly of Delegates of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Sydney Town Hall, August 1970 The federation was established in 1952, with the merger of the International Federation of Secondary Teachers (FIPESO), the International Federation of Teachers' Associations (IFTA), and the World Organisation of the Teaching Profession (WOTP), the three main ...
Ellinor Gertrude Walker OBE (9 April 1893 – 7 November 1990) was an Australian kindergarten teacher and women's rights activist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She wrote plays and poems and is credited with drafting The Guardianship of Infants Act passed in 1940 in South Australia.
Australia celebrates centenary of federation. 25 February: Death of Donald Bradman, aged 92 in Kensington Park, Adelaide, South Australia. Western Australia adopts a uniform age of consent of 16. Boat load of asylum seekers is rescued by Norwegian ship, leading to the Tampa affair. Australian forces deployed to War to topple Taliban for ...
Five years after Parkes' death, Australia became a federation on 1 January 1901. The negotiations to form the federation followed directly from the conferences that Parkes had instigated. Parkes was known for his commanding personality and skills as an orator, despite having a minor speech impediment with controlling aspirates.
In the 19th century the Colonial governments, which would later form the Commonwealth of Australia as states, established a variety of state schools. These schools were both demanded by the Australian trade union and labour movement, for the free education of the working class, and also used as a way to control the education and free time of the children of the Australian working class.
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