SBS50: Fast Facts 2001

Map Of Tasmania And Australia

A map of Tasmania and Australia from 1922. Credit: Interim Archives/Getty Images

Did you know, 2001 was the centenary of federation, when, 100 years earlier, the six British colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia united to form the Commonwealth of Australia?


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