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Federation (1999)
Director: Ian Munro
Cast: Deborah Kennedy, Leo McKern, Peter O'Brien, William Zappa
Runtime173 min
RatingE
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An epic tale about the making of Australia. This tells the stories of the founding fathers and of the people in six separate colonies in the decades leading to Federation. It's a tale of winners and losers, of great debates which unified the country, of the struggle not just to make an Australian nation, but to create Australian democracy.
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Fans of documentary films and explorations of Australia's formative years will appreciate the epic and insightful Federation (1999), directed by Ian Munro. This film tells the fascinating stories of the founding fathers and the unification of the country's six separate colonies, offering a rich historical perspective on the struggle to create Australian democracy.
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A federation is an entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, is constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision, neither by the component states nor the federal political body without constitutional amendment.
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