Australian Geographic

HISTORIC DUO

FTER FEDERATION IN 1901, Australian cities embraced the possibilities presented by a new century. Sydney in particular had outgrown many aspects of colonial settlement. Slums were demolished and streets reconfigured due to unsanitary conditions exposed by a bubonic plague outbreak.

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