Re: Happy Birthday To Oz (was HAPPY NEW YEAR!)

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:56:48 +1100 "Alan and Carmel Brain"
<aebrain@dynamite.com.au> writes:
>FWIW Australia is 100 today.
>

Happy Birthday!

>On Jan 01, 1901, the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria,
>Tasmania, South Australia, Queensland and (just) Western Australia
>became federated states in a new nation: Australia.
>
>The first time a nation had been created by a referendum of its 
>inhabitants,
>by the Ballot not the Bullet.
>

Hopefully your country has started a growing trend (but the professional
cynic my occupation requires me to be doubts it.  But maybe I can be
righteously wrong this time <grin>.

>It's interesting to think I've lived in Oz for 1/3 of its lifetime.
>

The best third, I assume? <grin>

Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious
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