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Contemporary sources - The Advertiser
1893-1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901
| 1895 |
| Advertiser 19
January 1895 p. 4 cols. F,G. Editorial. 'The Conference of Premiers.' 'He [Mr Reid] has adopted the excellent idea which issued from the deliberations of a number of federation leagues, that the one step to be taken now is to invite the people to act. Politicians have played long enough with federation. The best service they can render the movement in its present stage is to give the Australian people an opportunity of deciding for themselves whether they want union or not.' |
| Advertiser 24
January 1895 p. 5 col. D. 'Australian federation. The Melbourne meeting. Mr Reid enthusiastic. "Confederation, conquest or chaos." Address by Mr Kingston.' '[Mr Kingston said] South Australia joined all the several colonies of the group geographically, and had never lagged behind in her desire for federation, and that colony would not be found behind in marching towards the federation goal.' |
| Advertiser 26
January 1895 p. 6 col. C. 'Australian federation. The South Australian League. Mr J.H. Symon elected President.' 'Their special object should be to secure an organisation irrespective of class, creed, or party. They should co-operate with and not act in opposition to Parliament, and should support every proposal from whatever source arising to advance the federal cause.' |
| Advertiser 28
January 1895 p. 4 cols. E,F. Editorial. 'Australian federation.' 'Years of shilly-shallying, procrastination, and failure have thus taught the lesson that the great national movement must be relegated to the people themselves.' |
| Advertiser 30
January 1895 p. 5 col. G. 'Conference of Premiers. Meeting at Hobart. The Federal Movement.' 'A proposal to have a Federal Convention elected by the people, to draft a constitution and submit it to the people for rejection or acceptance, was discussed.' |
| Advertiser 31
January 1895 p. 5 col. E. 'The Premiers' Conference. Jealousy of the Federal Council. Unanimity seems hopeless. A Federal Parliament doubtful.' |
| p. 5 col. H. 'New standard time. The hour-zone system. What it is.' |
| Advertiser 1
February 1895 p. 4 cols. E,F. Editorial. 'The Federal Council and Conference.' 'But the increased representation of the colonies that are members of the Council does not cure the fatal weakness arising from the fact that two colonies - New South Wales and South Australia - are not represented at all. We have never been able to recognise how a federal spirit is displayed in a dogged refusal to make the most of federal machinery already existent until better is provided.' |
| p. 5 cols. G,H. 'The Federal Council. The sixth session. The opening speech. Premiers' Conference criticised.' |
| Advertiser 8
February 1895 p. 5 col. F. 'The new federation scheme. Result of the Conference. The Draft Bill.' 'The Draft Bill prepared by Mr Kingston and Mr Turner, providing for the election of a Convention to frame a federal constitution . . . ' |
| Advertiser 9
February 1895 p. 6 cols. C,D. 'Australasian federation. Meeting of the South Australian League. Speech by Mr J.H. Symon.' |
| Advertiser 11
February 1895 p. 5 cols. G,H. 'Return of the Premier. The Intercolonial Conference. Federation and reciprocity.' |
| Advertiser 21
December 1895 p. 4 cols. F-H. Editorial. 'Parliament prorogued.' 'Distinction of a kind that no purely local legislation can give, however meritorious, belongs to a Parliament that stands as a pioneer of the new movement for Australasian federation. His Excellency declared yesterday that it was to him a source of special satisfaction that the labors of Parliament had enabled him to be the first Governor to assent on behalf of Her Majesty to the Federal Enabling Act.' |
