For
the first time in history, we have a nation for a continent, and
a continent for a nation.
Edmund
Barton, later the first Prime Minister of Australia,
at a meeting in Ashfield,
New South Wales, 1893,
in R R Garran, Prosper the Commonwealth, Sydney, 1958
Proclamation
of the
Commonwealth of
Australia by the Queen 1900
National Library of Australia
