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Description	Proclamation of the federation of Australian colonies to form the nation of Australia read by the Governor of Queensland from a balcony on the William Street frontage of the Queensland Treasury
Source	John Oxley Library
Date	1 January 1901
Author	not known
Permission	copyright expired

This image was created in Australia and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G23 (Duration of copyright) (Sep 2005), generally copyright has expired as follows:

Type of material		Copyright has expired if ...
A	Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown:	taken or published prior to 1955-01-01
B	Photographs (except A):	taken prior to 1955-01-01
C	Artistic works (except A & B):	the creator died before 1955-01-01
D	Published editions¹ (except A & B):	first published more than 25 years ago
E	Commonwealth or State government owned² photographs:	first published more than 50 years ago

¹means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint.

²owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.

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