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    Australia's first prime minister, Edmund Barton, addresses the nation, Sydney, 1901. From the book 'Souvenir of the inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth', circa 1901. Courtesy of the National Library of Australia.

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    The states of the nation

    Back in 2000 when the Centenary of Federation was looming, I was inclined to joke that we had to make a song and dance about it because the thing itself had never really happened. It had of course, in history and in the history books, and we had a constitution …



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