Self-government

Self-government



Since Australia was a big country and England was so far away, it didn’t take long before the immigrants wanted self-government. The first colony  i   n Australia was New South Wales. That got a certain grade of self-government  i   n 1823 and made their own constitution in 1855. All the colonies/areas, except West Australia had self-government in 1859. Australia became a nation in 1901, when all the colonies merged.

 



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