It was the year of Waterloo – 1815 – when Henry Parkes was born. Between his birth on May 27 and his baptism on July 5 at St Mary the Virgin Church in Stoneleigh, the great Battle of Waterloo had ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It's Henry Parkes' 200th birthday next Wednesday and it's worth recalling that it was his famous ...

TODAY marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes, a giant of NSW politics and regarded as the Father of Federation. Before his death in 1896, Parkes represented the northern beaches ...

He was NSW premier on five separate occasions, a feat which current NSW Premier Mike Baird said yesterday “no one has been either­ crazy enough or talented enough to ever match”. NSW Opposition Leader ...

Sir Henry Parkes was the true father of Australia’s federation To say the man who would become Sir Henry Parkes had a tough childhood is an understatement. Yet poverty and a lack of formal education ...

He stood six feet tall in his socks, with a head shaped like a mammoth goose egg, big end up, it was said. Sir Henry Parkes seemed to lend himself to such flourishes. Here was a man of "colossal ...

Exclusive: Sir Henry Parkes memorial school of arts – home of the 1889 Tenterfield oration – to close in a fortnight The first museum included on the National Trust register will close its doors at ...

At 22, Henry Lawson was dirt poor, painfully shy and deaf as a post. His first few poems had garnered considerable praise but writing was "clearly not to be relied on as a means of support".

Sir Henry Parkes was the true father of Australia’s federation To say the man who would become Sir Henry Parkes had a tough childhood is an understatement. Yet poverty and a lack of formal education ...