The Federal Convention : the rivers question settled |
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| Title : | The Federal Convention : the rivers question settled |
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| Source : | Advertiser, 8 February 1898, p. 5 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1898 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
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| Description : |
Extract from a newspaper article reporting that at the third Federal Convention in Melbourne in 1898, the power of absolute control over the rivers that had been agreed to give to the Federal government has been taken away again During the Federal Conventions of 1897-98 delegates from the colonies intensely debated control of the Murray waters and the rights of each state under a new federal government. Extracts from this newspaper article report that at the third Federal Convention in Melbourne in 1898, the power of absolute control over the rivers that had been agreed to give to the Federal government has been taken away again. |
| Internet links : | ParlInfo web: Australian Federal Conventions of the 1890s http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/pubs/records.htm |
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