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Contents 1 Australian independence 2 From history after 1901 2.1 References 2.1.1 Surveys 2.1.2 Specialized academic studies 2.1.3 Military and Naval 2.1.4 Web References 2.1.5 Primary sources 3 Map

[edit] Australian independence

The beginning of the twentieth century saw the final result of nearly two decades of negotiations with regard to federation, with the approval of a federal constitution by all six Australian colonies and its subsequent ratification by the British parliament in 1900. This resulted in the creation of an independent Australian nation as of January 1, 1901.

It is disappointing to find such an egregious error in the first paragraph of a new article. The Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 was no more an "independent nation" than New South Wales had been in 1900. The six Australian states continued to be self-governing British colonies as they had been before federation. All that had happened was that they had ceded certain of their legislative powers to a federal parliament, under an agreement codified in a written constitution. All Australian legislation, state and federal, remained in theory subject to reservation by the representatives of the Crown (who were also representatives of the Colonial Office) and could be overridden by imperial legislation. The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act could in theory be amended or repealed by the Imperial Parliament. Australia had no independent diplomatic representation. Australia used British currency. Australia's waters were both legally and in practice controlled by the Royal Navy and British shipping legislation. Australia had only the rudimemts of independent armed forces, and these were intended to be mere auxilliaries of the imperial forces. Federation was neither in theory or in practice a declaration of independence from the United Kingdom - a suggestion which would have horrified most Australians and certainly never occurred to Barton, Deakin, Griffith etc when they brought it about. It is true that de facto the Commonwealth enjoyed almost complete legislative independence - but then so had the colonies for many years before federation. If Australia was an "independent nation" in 1901, then so had Tasmania been in 1900. Adam 05:20, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

It isn't a new article. It was my cruddy attempt at writing a lead section to fit what was left of the content from the larger article. In any case, I've fixed the error. Rebecca 05:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] From history after 1901

These references were given on the History of Australia since 1901, it's unclear if they were actually used to write the article, however they may be useful to expand this and the after 1945 article.--Peta 02:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

[edit] Surveys

• Kenneth A. MacKirdy, "Australia" in Robin W. Winks; ed. The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth: Trends, Interpretations and Resources Duke University Press. 1966. pp 144-73, detailed historiography
• W. David McIntyre, "Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands" in Judith M. Brown and William Roger Louis, eds; The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume: 4: The Twentieth Century Oxford University Press 1998, pp 667-92
• Geoffrey Blainey. The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining (Melbourne, 1963).
• G. C. Bolton, The Oxford History of Australia, Vol. V, 1942-1988: The Middle Way (Melbourne, 1990).
• Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee (eds), A People's History of Australia 4 vol McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Melbourne, 1988
• Hilary Carey, Believing in Australia: A Cultural History of Religions (Sydney: Allen&Unwin, 1996),
• Charles Manning Hope Clark, History of Australia 6 vol (Melbourne University Press, 1962, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1981, and 1987)
• Frank G. Clarke, Australia: A Concise Political and Social History (Sydney: Harcourt Brace, 1992)
• Frank G. Clarke; The History of Australia Greenwood Press. 2002
• Roger Covell, Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society (Melbourne: Sun Books, 1967)
• Leslie Finlay Crisp, Australian Federal Labour Party, 1901-1951 (London, 1955)
• F. K. Crowley; Australia's Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the First Settlements to Modern Times 1960
• David Day, Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia (Sydney: HarperCollins, 2001)
• Steve Dowrick, Riaz Hassan, Ian Mcallister, eds; The Cambridge Handbook of the Social Sciences in Australia Cambridge University Press. 2003
• Ulrich Ellis, A History of the Australian Country Party (Melbourne, 1963).
• Brian C. Fitzpatrick, The British Empire in Australia: An Economic History, 1834-1939 (Melbourne, 1941)
• Lyndhurst Folkine Giblin, The Growth of a Central Bank: The Development of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1924-1945 (1951)
• Henry Mackenzie Green, History of Australian Literature: Pure and Applied 2 vol (Sydney, 1961)
• William Keith Hancock, Australia (London, 1930)
• Paul Hasluck, Government and the People, 1939-1942 (Canberra, 1952).
• Leonie Kramer, ed., The Oxford History of Australian Literature (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1981).
• Stuart MacIntyre, The Oxford History of Australia, Vol. IV, 1901-1942: The Succeeding Age (Melbourne, 1986).
• David P. Mellor, The Role of Science and Industry (1958), in WW2.
• John Rickard, Australia: A Cultural History (Harlow: Longman, 1988)
• Tim Rowse, Australian Liberalism and National Character (Malmsbury: Kibble Books, 1978).
• Russell Ward, A Nation for a Continent: The History of Australia, 1901-1975 (Richmond, 1988).
• A. T. Yarwood and M. J. Knowling, Race Relations in Australia: A History (Sydney: Methuen, 1982)

[edit] Specialized academic studies

• W Aughterson V (ed.), King Stock: Aspects of Mid-Century Australian Life F W Cheshire, Melbourne, 1953
• Sydney J. Butlin, The War Economy, 1939-1942 (1955)
• Miriam Dixson; The Imaginary Australian: Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present;; University of New South Wales Press, 1999
• Curthoys, Ann and Merritt, John (eds), Australia's First Cold War 1945-1959, vol. 1, Society, Communism and Culture, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1984.; Better Dead Than Red, vol. 2, Australia's First Cold War 1945-1959, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1986.
• Day, David. Curtin: A Life, Harper Collins, 1999
• Livio Dobrez, (ed.) Identifying Australia in Postmodern Times, ANU Bibliotech, 1994
• John Edwards, Curtin's Gift: Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister, Allen & Unwin, 2005
• Herbert Vere Evatt, Australian Labour Leader: The Story of W. A. Holman and the Labour Movement (Sydney, 1940; abridged ed., 1954)
• Laurie F. Fitzhardinge and Lloyd Ross, William Morris Hughes: That Fiery Particle, 1862-1914 (Sydney, 1964),
• Adam Jamrozik, Cathy Boland and Robert Urquhart, Social Change and Cultural Transformation in Australia Cambridge University Press, 1995
• David Lowe; Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948-54 University of New South Wales Press, 1999
• Hugh Mackay, Reinventing Australia: The mind and mood of Australia in the 90s, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1993
• Noel McLachlan, Waiting for the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism, Penguin, Ringwood, 1989
• Mark McKenna, The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
• Robert Manne (ed.), The New Conservatism in Australia, Oxford University Press, 1982
• Martin, A.W., Robert Menzies:a Life, vol. 1, 1894-1943 Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993.
• Neville Meaney, "The End of "White Australia" and Australia's Changing Perception of Asia, 1945-1990", Australian Journal of International Affairs, 49, 2 (1995), pp. 171-89.
• Gregory Melleuish; The Packaging of Australia: Politics & Culture Wars University of New South Wales Press. 1998
• John Murphy; Imagining the Fifties: Private Sentiment and Political Culture in Menzies' Australia University of New South Wales Press, 2000
• A. La Nauze, Alfred Deakin: A Biography 2 vols. (Melbourne, 1965)
• Prasser, Scott, Nethercote, JR and Warhurst, John, (eds), The Menzies Era: A Reappraisal of Government, Politics and Policy, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1995.

[edit] Military and Naval

• C. E. W. Bean, The Story of Anzac from the Outbreak of War to the End of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign May 4, 1915 (1921; St Lucia, 1981), vol 1 of 8
• Chris Coulthard-Clark; The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles Allen & Unwin, 2001
• W. David McIntyre, Background to the Anzus Pact (London, 1995)
• Murphy, John, Harvest of Fear:Australia's Vietnam War, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1993.
• John Reeve and David Stevens, eds; The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Modern War at Sea Allen & Unwin. 2003
• David Stevens, John Reeve; Southern Trident: Strategy, History, and the Rise of Australian Naval Power Allen & Unwin, 2001

[edit] Web References

1. Sydney Sydney, nsw shelled by a japanese submarine on 8 june 1942. Peter Dunn's Australia at War. (31 October 2000). Retrieved on February 25, 2006.

[edit] Primary sources

• Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus; The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History Allen & Unwin, 1999
• D. Black, In His Own Words: John Curtin's Speeches and Writings, Paradigm Books, Curtin University, Perth 1995
• Menzies, Robert Gordon, The Measure of the Years. Cassell, London, 1970.
• Sir Earle Page, Truant Surgeon: The Inside Story of Forty Years of Australian Political Life (Sydney, 1963).

[edit] Map

The map is excellent with a couple of minor exceptions. The Australian Capital Territory was orginally names the Federal Capital Territory in 1911. Its name was changed in 1938. Austraia's only other mainland territory is the Jervis Bay Territory. It was added to the FCT in 1915 to provide the captital with a port. In 1989 the JBT became a separate territory when the ACT gained self government. Alan Davidson 01:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)