Information about 1889 In Australia

See also: 1887 in Australia, other events of 1888, 1889 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

• Premier of New South Wales - Henry Parkes
• Premier of South Australia - Thomas Playford II

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19th century - 20th century
1850s  1860s  1870s  - 1880s -  1890s  1900s  1910s
1886 1887 1888 - 1889 - 1890 1891 1892

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See also: 1889 in Australia, other events of 1890, 1891 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

• Premier of New South Wales - Henry Parkes
• Premier of South Australia - John Cockburn until August 19, then Thomas Playford II

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This is a timeline of Australian history.

BC

• c. 40000 BC: Aboriginal tribes thought to have arrived in Australia.

1600s

• 1606 (March): The Dutch ship Duyfken

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Sir Henry Parkes GCMG, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was an Australian politician, also called the "Father of Federation" as part of the catalyst for the Federation of Australia and is at least considered the most prominent among the Australian Founding Fathers.
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Sir George Richard Dibbs KCMG (October 12 1834 – August 5 1904) was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales on three occasions.

Early years

Dibbs was born in Sydney, son of Captain John Dibbs, who disappeared in the same year.
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Sir Henry Parkes GCMG, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was an Australian politician, also called the "Father of Federation" as part of the catalyst for the Federation of Australia and is at least considered the most prominent among the Australian Founding Fathers.
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Thomas Playford (26 November 1837 - 19 April 1915) served as Premier of South Australia from June 11 1887 to June 26 1889 and August 8 1890 to June 20 1892, as well as serving as the Australian Federal Minister for Defence from 1905 to 1907.
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Dr. John Alexander Cockburn K.C.M.G. (23 August 1850 – 26 November 1929) was Premier of South Australia from June 27 1889 until August 18 1890.

Cockburn was born in Corsbie, Berwickshire, Scotland in 1850. His father was Thomas Cockburn.
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Boyd Dunlop Morehead (24 August 1843 – 30 October 1905) was premier of Queensland, Australia from November 1888 to June 1890.

Boyd Morehead was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and matriculated at University of Sydney.
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Sir Philip Oakley Fysh KCMG (1 March 1835 – 20 December 1919) was an Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania and a member of the first federal ministry.

Fysh was born in Highbury, London and was educated at the Denmark Hill school.
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Duncan Gillies (January 1834 – 12 September 1903), Australian colonial politician, was the 14th Premier of Victoria.

Gillies was born at Overnewton near Glasgow, Scotland, where his father had a market garden.
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Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of Australia's Monarch Queen Elizabeth II. The Governor performs important constitutional, ceremonial and community functions, including:

• presiding over the Executive Council;

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Frederick Napier Broome (1842–1896) was Governor of Western Australia from 1883 to 1889.

He was born in Canada, but was living in England in 1865, when he married Mary Anne Barker. The couple then moved to New Zealand.
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Louisa Lawson (February 17, 1848 - August 12, 1920) was an Australian writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist.

Louisa Lawson was born and grew up in Mudgee, New South Wales.
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Events

• 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

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North Australia Railway (NAR), also known as the Palmerston to Pine Creek railway, was a narrow gauge railway which ran from Darwin, once known as Palmerston, to Birdum, just south of Larrimah.
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Northern Territory

Flag Coat of Arms
Slogan or Nickname: The Territory, The NT, The Top End
Motto(s): none

Other Australian states and territories
Capital Darwin
Government Constitutional monarchy
Administrator Ted Egan
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Events

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The Tenterfield Oration was a speech given by Sir Henry Parkes at the Tenterfield School of Arts, New South Wales, Australia on 24 October, 1889 advocating the Federation of the six Australian colonies, which were at the time self-governed but under the distant central authority of
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"Clancy of The Overflow" is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on December 21 1889. The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works.
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''' Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (February 17, 1864 – February 5, 1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around
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The Bulletin is an Australian weekly magazine, which has been published in Sydney since 1880. It was immensely influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin
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Location Flemington Racecourse
Melbourne, Australia
Inaugurated: 1861
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website: Flemington Racecourse
Race information
Distance 3200 metres (1.
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