Parkes_and_Federation

12 May, 2014 403 × 403
Sir Henry Parkes: "With our splendid harbour, our beautifully situated city, our vast territories, all our varied and inexaustible natural wealth, if we don't convert our colony into a great and prosperous nation, it will be a miracle of error for which we shall have to answer as for a gigantic sin." Henry Parkes 1867.

Henry Parkes portrait by Tom Roberts. Quote from a speech given by Parkes in Melbourne in 1867. [Image courtesy Facebook, Senator Deborah O’Neill]