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Celebrate Federation Day!

The Commonwealth of Australia came into being on January 1st, 1901.

A National Day in many countries is associated with some kind of Independence Day. Australia’s independence was an evolutionary process rather than a single event. It was conceived through negotiation and the ballot box, not blood and war. This legacy of peace and stability has been the hallmark of Australian history (Aaron Paul, ABC).

Australia’s first Prime Minister Edmund Barton;

“We have for the first time in history a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation.”

Why observe Federation Day?

There are three significant days in the Australian national calendar that go uncelebrated; January 1st (Federation Day), May 9th (First Opening of Parliament) and July 9th (Constitution Day).

There are so many interesting facts about how the Commonwealth of Australia came about. Read about them HERE. and get a free quiz for your Federation Day BBQ!

Herald the New Year and Celebrate Australia!

May 2025 bring goodwill to you and all those around you!

1 January, 2025

3 responses to “Celebrate Federation Day!”

Australia Day Is Back – Equanimity

1/22/2025

[…] bring Aboriginal and British-descent Australians together have been produced, such as celebrating Federation Day and Mabo Day. Both sides can take responsibility. The Protestant Christian idea of ‘original […]

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danielboonjp

1/1/2025

If it were Indigenous, then that would be part true… If several people came to your house and took over, and then celebrated that every year, how happy would You be?

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1. Equanimity
  
  1/13/2025
  
  Thanks for commenting. Sorry for the slow response, but there was a technical hurdle to overcome before comments would show in the new theme of my website.
  I’m not sure what ‘it’ refers to in your comment, but if it’s federation, the conditions that prevented Aboriginal Australia from forming a political union across the continent is explained in my page Cultural Amnesia in Queensland:
  
  “In history, the Agricultural Revolution only took hold where multiple conditions made it easy; moderate climate and fertile river plains at crossroads of diverse human groups. The Australian continent didn’t (and doesn’t) have those conditions in sufficient abundance. Agriculture brought hardship, social stratification and power over the environment and neighboring tribes. It enabled planning and development. Intercontinental transport only ended Australia’s isolation nearly eight millennia after the earliest civlizations arose in Mesopotamia. Finally it became a crossroad of sorts. When the British arrived in Australia, it was the meeting of a stone age people and the first civilization on the cusp of the industrial revolution. They couldn’t have been more different in development. In some ways it is remarkable it went as well as it did, compared to earlier clashes, such as the Mongols in Europe.”
  
  This is not a put-down, it’s a description of forces shaping events.
  
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