Makers Of Miracles

The Cast of the Federation Story

By: David Headon, John Williams

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Paperback | 15 March 2024 | Edition Number 1

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This book brings the creators of our Commonwealth to life as characters, as living people in the context of their time and place.

The road that led to the inauguration of the Australian nation in Centennial Park, Sydney, on 1 January 1901 was by no means smooth travelling. Alfred Deakin later noted that Federation 'must always appear to have been secured by a series of miracles'.

These 'miracles' needed committed Australians to make them happen. But many individuals who helped to write the Federation story have long been forgotten. Who were these movers and shakers? What were their hopes for the fledgling nation?

Our founders were an eclectic bunch of characters, with their own ambitions, dreams and foibles; from the substantial Reid who liked to offer his seat on the tram to not one but two ladies, to the cunning orator Parkes whom The Bulletin cheekily dubbed the 'great hi ham'.

Makers of Miracles allows us to see behind the public activities of these men and women and to understand their private thoughts and aspirations. It is a book not so much of politics as of personalities, bringing the creators of our Commonwealth vividly to life.

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"This book is very accessible and readable and would be highly useful and informative to teachers, senior students and uni bods, particularly as a supplement to a more formal curriculum. The general readers should enjoy the tangential lights thrown into previously obscure corners and glimpse the noble aspirations and human face of our forebears." "The Canberra Times""

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Fortunes of Federation	p. 3
Bonhomie, Tenacity, Vindictiveness: The Force of Charles Cameron Kingston	p. 21
A Welsh Aristocrat and an Australian Liberal: Samuel Griffith and the Writing of the Constitution	p. 33
Andrew Inglis Clark: 'The Republican of Tasmania'	p. 44
George Reid, The Democrat as Equivocator: Piss and Wind, or Principles in Search of a Constituency?	p. 56
'It Would be a Glorious Finish to your Life': Federation and Henry Parkes	p. 65
Edmund Barton: Some Mysteries	p. 75
Alfred Deakin and his Friends	p. 82
Federation's Prodigy: The Private Life of Robert Randolph Garran	p. 96
Prime Ministers' Wives: Women in the Background	p. 113
'In the Interests of the Home': Rose Scott's Feminist Opposition to Federation	p. 123
Catherine Helen Spence: Grand Old Woman of Australia	p. 132
On the Side of the Angels: E. W. O'Sullivan as Republican, Feminist and Federationist	p. 141
God	p. 153
H. B. Higgins: Federation as 'A Mere Word'	p. 163
Farmer McGeoch's Diaries	p. 179
The Most Eccentric of Them All: J. W. R. Clarke	p. 189
The Japanese in the Big Picture	p. 199
Tom Roberts and Mandy Martin: From the Big Picture to Red Ochre Cove	p. 212
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 247
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