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VICTORIANS LIVE: AUSTRALIA'S VICTORIAN VESTIGES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2006

Margaret Harris
Margaret Harris
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
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ON 1 JANUARY 1901, at the beginning of a new century, the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed a political entity by the federation of six separate British colonies. Queen Victoria's formal assent to the necessary legislation of the Westminster Parliament was one of her last official acts; she died on 22 January. For all the tyranny of 20,000 kilometres distance, the impress of the monarch on her far-flung colony was evident. Two of the states of the Commonwealth, Victoria and Queensland, had been named for her. When the Port Phillip settlement separated from New South Wales in 1851, it became Victoria; in 1859, when the Moreton Bay settlement also hived off, its first governor announced “a fact which I know you will all hear with delight–Queensland, the name selected for this new Colony, was entirely the happy thought and inspiration of Her Majesty herself!” (Cilento and Lack 161)

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REVIEW ESSAY
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 342 - 346
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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