Who is Sir Henry Parkes

Sir Henry Parkes, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia. He has been referred to as the "Father of Federation" due to his early promotion for the federation of the six colonies of Australia, as an early critic of British convict transportation and as a proponent for the expansion of the Australian continental rail network.Parkes delivered his famous Tenterfield Oration in 1889, which yielded a federal conference in 1890 and a Constitutional Convention in 1891, the first of a series of meetings that led to the federation of Australia. He died in 1896, five years before this process was completed. He was described duri...
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Sir Henry Parkes Poems

• The Beauteous Terrorist
  Soft as the morning's pearly light,
  Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,
  Her gentle face was ever bright
  With noble thought and purpose proud. ...
• Fatherland
  THE BRAVE old land of deed and song,
  Of gentle hearts and spirits strong,
  Of queenly maids and heroes grand,
  Of equal laws,â??our Fatherland! ...
• Four Score
  I count the mercifullest part of all
  God's mercies, in this coil of eighty years,
  Is that no sense of being disappears
  Or fails; I see the signal, hear the call, ...
• Stanzas
  Up go the beautiful and world-watch'd stars,
  Lifting the glory of America,
  'Mong the red flags which gleam through masts
  and spars...
• Sonnet
  When you arrive at Sydney, sailing up
  The harbour, a small central isle you'll see;
  With two or three low huts, but not a tree,
  Nor blade of grass,-upon't; and, on the top,...

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• Troveaustralia: in 1888, ‘the australian’ reported on a meeting of the premiers of nsw, vic, sa and qld on matters of ‘intercolonial interest’. a year later, sir henry parkes argued that the australian colonies should unite into one nation. read the article in trove:

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