Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the wording for the promised referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. It will be Australia's first referendum since 1999 - and the first one anyone younger than 42 will have voted in.
On New Year's Day in 1901, 60,000 people gathered at Centennial Park in Sydney to witness the formation of Australia as it's now known.
The Queen's Proclamation was read, ministers were sworn in and with a 21-gun salute, what had been six separate colonies were united as one.
Setting the rules for how this new nation would be governed was the Constitution.
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