Australian Events
Posted in 1895
- Premiers' Conference on Federation held in Hobart, Tasmania calls for a convention to frame the federal constitution. Enabling Acts were to go through colonial legislatures authorising popular election of delegates and machinery to consider and pass the draft Constitution by referendum.
- The economy shows clear evidence of revival following the "... cloud of depression which has so persistently hung over Australia during the past three years," writes the editor of Australian Insurance and Banking Record. He records improvement in the prices of wool, hides, leather, beef and mutton, wheat, dairy products and Australian metals, referring to gold.
- In January Queensland standardises time at 10 hours ahead of GMT (Eastern Standard Time), followed in December by Perth standardising time at 8 hours ahead of GMT (Western Standard Time).
- "The Man from Snowy River, and Other Verses" by A B (Banjo) Paterson is published.
- "Waltzing Matilda" is first sung in public at the North Gregory Hotel in central Queensland. Tune by Christine McPherson and words by Sydney solicitor and writer Banjo Paterson, the song refers to an incident in which a Bavarian shearer swagman died.
Premiers' Conference on Federation held in Hobart, Tasmania calls for a convention to frame the federal constitution. Enabling Acts were to go through colonial legislatures authorising popular election of delegates and machinery to consider and pass the draft Constitution by referendum.