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The Tenterfield Oration was also were the State council could not do anything,they had no power no support of the people and they were merely a body appointed by the Federal government. Sir Henry Parkes wanted the state to have power to listen to the people in the colonies instead of not listening to them and what they wanted.

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The primary reason given by Parkes, the then Premier of NSW, for federation in the Tenterfield Oration was the united defence of the Australian continent. ... He explicitly stated the inspiration that the union of the US states should hold for Australians, in terms of its gaining any independence from the British.

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The primary reason given by Parkes, the then Premier of NSW, for federation in the Tenterfield Oration was the united defence of the Australian continent. ... He explicitly stated the inspiration that the union of the US states should hold for Australians, in terms of its gaining any independence from the British.

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Australia's Federation - Behind the News

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You probably know that Aussie states have their own laws and their own leaders but have you ever wondered why that is? It all goes back to a time when the states were separate colonies. I thought it was a good chance to go back in time and take a look at how Australia came to be Australia.

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What was Sir Henry Parkes significance? Well he changed the way the country ran and that the State government had power and could change things if the Federal government let it pass like some laws

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What was Sir Henry Parkes significance? Well he changed the way the country ran and that the State government had power and could change things if the Federal government let it pass like some laws

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Henry Parks was a politician and was premier of new south wales 5 times

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On the 24th of October, 1889, a man by the name of Sir Henry Parkes, delivered a speech called the "Tenterfield operation". The speech was presented at the Tenterfield School of Arts.
He had defended the 1866 settlement against pressure from the Public School League and embattled Catholic and Anglican people who didn't want to abide the rules until by the late 1870s administrative problems on the Council of Education, concern to spread limited resources more widely and the alliance with Robertson led him to move in a way most systematical politicians were coming to think fateful.

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