Why won’t you join the ring?
Brittania (to New South Wales):
Why won’t you join the ring with your sisters?
New South Wales:
Because Victoria proposed it, and I am not going to play Victoria’s game.
Resource Sheet 2
Australian Federal Congress Bill (1894)
Proposed by Dr John Quick; debated and accepted by the Australian Natives Association, Bendigo Branch; resolutions submitted to the Australasian Federation League, Sydney Branch.
- That each colony should elect, on its Parliamentary franchise, ten representatives to a Federal Congress.
- That the Congress should frame a federal Constitution.
- That, on a day to be arranged between the Governments, the Federal Constitution should be referred to the electors of each colony for acceptance or rejection.
- That if the Constitution were accepted by majorities in two or more colonies, it should be forwarded to the Imperial Government to be passed into law.
J Quick and RR Garran, The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1901.
Melbourne Punch, 14 December 1893, National Library of Australia.