Henry Parkes

Henry Parkes (1815–1896) was an Australian politician and newspaper proprietor who served five times as premier of New South Wales and advocated Australian federation.

Edmund Barton: Edmund Barton was an Australian politician and the first prime minister of Australia. Barton carried federation into national government after Parkes helped make it a political cause.
Warwickshire: Warwickshire is a historic county in the English Midlands. Parkes was born in Warwickshire before emigrating to Australia.
Australasian Federation Conference: The Australasian Federation Conference of 1890 brought colonial representatives together to discuss federation. Parkes convened this meeting to revive negotiations among colonies.
Federation of Australia: Federation of Australia was the creation of the Commonwealth from six colonies on 1 January 1901. The union came five years after Parkes’s death, following the cause he had championed.
John Robertson: John Robertson was a New South Wales politician and premier associated with land reform. Robertson was Parkes’s political ally and rival in the colony’s shifting party alignments.
Chartism: Chartism was a British working-class movement that campaigned for political reforms in the nineteenth century. The political demands of Parkes’s British era formed part of the world he left behind.
Tenterfield Oration: The Tenterfield Oration was an 1889 speech by Henry Parkes calling for an Australian federal convention. Parkes used the speech to make a federal convention a public and political demand.
Public education in New South Wales: Public education in New South Wales developed through colonial laws establishing government-supported schooling. Parkes’s governments expanded state involvement in education and helped shape its public system.
George Reid: George Reid was an Australian politician who served as premier of New South Wales and prime minister. Reid succeeded Parkes as a leading New South Wales politician and later supported federation.
New South Wales: New South Wales is an Australian state, established as a British colony in 1788. Its colonial institutions were the arena in which Parkes built his career.

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