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 ...

TODAY marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes, a giant of NSW politics and regarded as the Father of Federation. Before his death in 1896, Parkes represented the northern beaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parkes, the longest-serving NSW premier, is the undisputed “father of federation”. He was the chief advocate for federation in the 19th century and participated in the early conventions that sought to ...

Visitors to Stoneleigh this week might have thought that the Ashes had begun a few days early. The Australian flag was flying, the village club was bedecked in Aussie bunting and the Australian ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One is the Queen of England and Australia; the other is known as the father of Federation. And a stoush is brewing about whether the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Exploring for Sir Henry Parkes In Faulconbridge Cemetery, which is located in Sir Henry Parkes Drive just opposite the railway station on ...

Mark Coulton (NAT) since 2007. Loses Mudgee and Wellington to Calare while gaining Gunnedah from New England and Broken Hill from Farrer. Gaining the sparsely populated north-west corner of the state ...

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 ...