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This page considers the development of the Constitution,
federation and intergovernmental relationships in the
era of the GII.
It covers -
orientations
Overviews of the Constitution include Helen Irving's To
constitute a nation: a cultural history of Australia's
Constitution (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1997),
Brian Galligan's A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional
System of Government (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press
1995), W G McMinn's A constitutional history of Australia
(Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 1979), Geoffrey Sawer's Australian
Politics and Law 1901-1929 (Carlton: Melbourne Uni
Press 1956).
founding fathers
For accounts of and by the 'founding fathers' see Alfred
Deakin's 'And be one people': Alfred Deakin's Federal
story (Carlton: Melbourne Uni Press 1995) edited
by Stuart Macintyre and Federated Australia: selections
from letters to the Morning Post, 1900-1910 (Carlton:
Melbourne Uni Press 1968) edited by John La Nauze, L.
F. Crisp's Federation Fathers (Carlton: Melbourne
Uni Press 1990), La Nauze's perceptive The making
of the Australian Constitution (Carlton: Melbourne
Uni Press 1972), Prosper the Commonwealth (Sydney:
Angus & Robertson 1958) by Robert Garran and The
Centenary companion to Australian federation (Cambridge:
Cambridge Uni Press 1999) edited by Helen Irving and The
emergent Commonwealth: Australian federation, expectations
& fulfilment 1889-1910 (Carlton: Melbourne Uni
Press 1975) by Ronald Norris.
Salient biographies are Henry Parkes (Melbourne:
Oxford Uni Press 1964) by A W Martin, Edmund Barton
(Melbourne: Oxford Uni Press 1974) by Martha Rutledge,
George Reid (Carlton: Melbourne Uni Press 1989)
by W G McMinn, Good Iron Mac: the life of Australian
federation father Sir William McMillan (Sydney: Federation
Press 1995) by Peter Gunnar, Samuel Walker Griffith
(St Lucia: Uni of Queensland Press 1984) by Roger Joyce,
H.B. Higgins: the rebel as judge (Sydney: Allen
& Unwin 1984) by John Rickard.
Pointers to early archival material are provided in Federation:
the guide to records (Canberra: Australian Archives
1998) by Steven Foster, Susan Marsden and Roslyn Russell.
Studies of the early years include A nation at last?:
the changing character of Australian nationalism 1880-1988
(North Ryde: Angus & Robertson 1988) by Stephen Alomes,
Unto God and Caesar: religious issues in the emerging
Commonwealth, 1891-1906 (Carlton: Melbourne Uni Press
1976) by Richard Ely, The sentimental nation: the
making of the Australian Commonwealth (Melbourne:
Oxford Uni Press 2000) by John Hirst.
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