Australian independence

We all know that Australia was born as a British colony but the truth is that it gains its independence. Do you know how? Well pay attention. The first European settlement in Australia dates from the late XNUMXth century. It becomes a group of colonies, six in total, but by the XNUMXth century they already enjoyed a certain semi-independent internal government and had their own colonial parliament. England, the Motherland, took care of its defense and relations with other countries, making direct interventions at times.

This type of relationship was legalized with the signing of a treaty called Colonial Laws Validity in 1855. Although on the one hand it was positive, on the other it ended up complicating the economic development of the colonies. For this reason, later in the 1890th century, a movement for the complete federalization of Australia began to be born. That is, the idea was for the six colonies to unite as federated states. For that there were several conventions and by XNUMX a constitution was adopted that was inspired by both England and the United States: thus was born the parliamentary monarchy of the first and the federal aspect of the second. The inhabitants of the six colonies voted for this constitution (women were only able to do so in South Australia and Aborigines here and in Queensland).

Thus, the Commonwealth of Australia it was finally born in 1901: the birth of a nation with its own army and diplomacy. Over the years, new modifications would be made that would limit the power and influence of Great Britain and even today there is a strong movement to turn the country into a republic.


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