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Alfred Deakin, a leading federalist and later Australian prime minister three times, ended an 1898 speech delivered in the Victorian town of Bendigo advocating federation of the Australian colonies, by quoting a local poet, William Gay.
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Bongiorno, F. (2014). ‘The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Ago’: Australian Frontiers and Borderlands. In: Readman, P., Radding, C., Bryant, C. (eds) Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137320582_3
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