Road to Federation
What is 1901?
The document that created the Australian system of government
What is The Australian Constitution?
The year women gained the right to vote
Strong pride and deep love for one's own country.
What is nationalism?
If 60% of Australians supported a constitutional change and 2 out of 6 states supported it, would it pass?
No
The six colonies that joined together to form Australia
What is NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania?
The Australian Constitution sets out what?
How Australia is governed and the powers of the federal government.
An important limitation on women's voting rights in 1902
What is Indigenous Australians not given the same federal voting rights as all other Australians?
The union of separate states to form one single nation.
What is Federation?
The second colony to give women the right to vote in Australia
What is Western Australia?
Name a reason the colonies wanted to consider joining together
What is defence, trade, immigration and cooperation
The way approve changes to the Australian Constitution?
Title of the law that gave women the right to vote in federal elections
What is The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902?
Power shared between central and state governments.
What isFederalism
The year in which Indigenous Australians gained the right to vote
What is 1962?
A reason some colonies may have been reluctant to join Federation?
What is worried about losing control over their own affairs and about the costs or effects of joining?
The number of changes to the constitution since 1901
What is 8?
The colony that gave women the right to vote first
What is South Australia?
The group that enforces laws and manages national business.
What is the Executive?
The term in which the Constitution splits powers between the federal and state governments?
The reason New South Wales' support particularly important to the success of Federation
Because it was the largest colony and had significant economic and political influence
The term used that describes the states and the population of Australia collectively combining to change the constitution
What is double majority?
The year in which women gained the right to vote in New Zealand. The first nation to do so.
What is 1893?
The elected body that debates and votes on new laws.
What is Legislature?
The test for migrants in an attempt to keep minority groups out of Australia.
What is a Dictation test?