Sir Henry Parkes is widely known as the Father of Federation for his passionate campaign to unite six colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia. He was also the father of 17 children, including his ...

He was NSW premier on five separate occasions, a feat which current NSW Premier Mike Baird said yesterday “no one has been either­ crazy enough or talented enough to ever match”. NSW Opposition Leader ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. He stood six feet tall in his socks, with a head shaped like a mammoth goose egg, big end up, it was said. Sir Henry Parkes seemed to ...

It was the year of Waterloo – 1815 – when Henry Parkes was born. Between his birth on May 27 and his baptism on July 5 at St Mary the Virgin Church in Stoneleigh, the great Battle of Waterloo had ...

The Chief Secretary’s Building on Sydney’s Macquarie Street — with its grand sandstone edifice, ornate interior staircases, marble tiled floors and dome roof — housed Henry Parkes’ office, hosted a ...

Sir Henry Parkes was the true father of Australia’s federation To say the man who would become Sir Henry Parkes had a tough childhood is an understatement. Yet poverty and a lack of formal education ...

At 22, Henry Lawson was dirt poor, painfully shy and deaf as a post. His first few poems had garnered considerable praise but writing was "clearly not to be relied on as a means of support".

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sir Henry Parkes' railway legacy was well demonstrated when, on January 8, 1901, one week after Federation celebrations in Sydney, 1200 ...

Sir Henry Parkes was the true father of Australia’s federation To say the man who would become Sir Henry Parkes had a tough childhood is an understatement. Yet poverty and a lack of formal education ...