//=time() ?>
"Don't be in such a hurry gentlemen" - poster satirising the initiatives towards Federation, 1895
October 23, 1907: 15,000 people attended the opening of the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work in Melbourne. Pattie Deakin, the wife of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, ran the model creche.
October 23, 1907: 15,000 people attended the opening of the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work in Melbourne. Pattie Deakin, the wife of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, ran the model creche.
Ben Chifley poses with a group of children at the front gate of his house in Busby Street, Bathurst
Robert Menzies at the launch of a coaxial cable linking Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne - enabling a caller to dial numbers directly without needing an operator to make connections, April 9, 1962
March 23, 1938: Lady Barton, wife of Australia's first prime minister Sir Edmund Barton, died in Sydney.