TENTERFIELD ORATION
Jul 01, 2021
2 minutes
HENRY PARKES AND his family arrived in Sydney in 1839 as impoverished immigrants from England. He soon became politically active, and in 1856 gained a seat in the first New South Wales Legislative Assembly, eventually serving five terms as NSW Premier.
A master of the factional politics that dominated colonial governments before party lines cemented in the early 20th century, newspaper, which became the voice of republican and federal thinkers, and, at an 1867 intercolonial conference in Melbourne, broached the need for “some federal bond of connection”.
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