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The History of Western Australia's Constitution. This exhibition gives an explanation of the chronological development of political change in Western Australia from British Settlement in 1829 until today. It is an historic account of how our political and constitutional system came about. It looks at the factors that influenced the development of the Western Australian constitution and it also touches on the issues that led Western Australia to join the Federation of Australian States.
Northbridge
Felicity Morel-EdnieBrown directs the History Project and has experience in the areas of history, urban policy, heritage, cultural tourism, interpretation, public relations, training and exhibition management, photography, fine art and conservation. She established and managed the assessment program for the Heritage Council and was the Project Manager for the adaptive reuse of the Old Hale School and its conversion to the Constitutional Centre of which she became the inaugural Director. A founding member of the Forum Advocating Cultural and Eco Tourism, she is a past Councillor for The International Council on Monuments and Sites, and for the Public Relations Institute of Australia. Her research has explored Perth's history, heritage and cultural development. Felicity is currently a Councillor of the History Council of WA and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Her passions, apart from history, are architecture, photography, travel and the development of a sustainable sandalwood industry in Western Australia.
1869 Petition - An Elective Legislative Council
In 1870, Colonists won the right to elect some members to the Legislative Council.
However, the Governor could still veto the council's decisions and some colonists remained dissatisfied. They wanted a fully-elected parliament to run the colony's affairs.
Colonists began arguing for self-government within years of the change to a partly-elected Legislative Council.
An attempt to hasten self-government foundered because of opposition in Britain but, by the 1880s, the call for political change was so strong that it could not be denied.
Occupation
This people have been taken under the protection of the British nation, and claimed as its subjects - their country has been taken possession of - their existence has been overlooked - their rights unregarded - their claims have been unattended to - their lands have been sold by the British Government without reference to their existence." George Fletcher Moore, 1841. Aboriginal people have lived for more than fifty thousand years in what we now call Western Australia. The arrival of the British at the Swan River in 1829 fractured traditional Aboriginal communities and altered their way of living.
Northbridge
Felicity Morel-EdnieBrown directs the History Project and has experience in the areas of history, urban policy, heritage, cultural tourism, interpretation, public relations, training and exhibition management, photography, fine art and conservation. She established and managed the assessment program for the Heritage Council and was the Project Manager for the adaptive reuse of the Old Hale School and its conversion to the Constitutional Centre of which she became the inaugural Director. A founding member of the Forum Advocating Cultural and Eco Tourism, she is a past Councillor for The International Council on Monuments and Sites, and for the Public Relations Institute of Australia. Her research has explored Perth's history, heritage and cultural development. Felicity is currently a Councillor of the History Council of WA and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Her passions, apart from history, are architecture, photography, travel and the development of a sustainable sandalwood industry in Western Australia.
1869 Petition - An Elective Legislative Council
In 1870, Colonists won the right to elect some members to the Legislative Council.
However, the Governor could still veto the council's decisions and some colonists remained dissatisfied. They wanted a fully-elected parliament to run the colony's affairs.
Colonists began arguing for self-government within years of the change to a partly-elected Legislative Council.
An attempt to hasten self-government foundered because of opposition in Britain but, by the 1880s, the call for political change was so strong that it could not be denied.
Occupation
This people have been taken under the protection of the British nation, and claimed as its subjects - their country has been taken possession of - their existence has been overlooked - their rights unregarded - their claims have been unattended to - their lands have been sold by the British Government without reference to their existence." George Fletcher Moore, 1841. Aboriginal people have lived for more than fifty thousand years in what we now call Western Australia. The arrival of the British at the Swan River in 1829 fractured traditional Aboriginal communities and altered their way of living.
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