Listen to a re-enactment of Sir Henry Parkes's famous 1889 speech in Tenterfield, known as the Tenterfield Oration. Note in particular the arguments Parkes used to gain political support.

Sir Henry Parkes made his impassioned plea to Australians to federate the colonies into one nation at Tenterfield, in northern NSW, on October 24, 1899. But almost a century and a half later ...

Tony Abbott’s Tenterfield oration last weekend followed in the footsteps of Sir Henry Parkes’s ­famous speech at Tenterfield in 1889. As a nation, if we can realise any of the Prime Minister ...

In the political flurry that was Sydney in the 1880s, she'd intersected with the premier, the venerable Sir Henry Parkes ... Two months after their meeting, Parkes kick-started federation with a ...

Sir Henry Parkes Memorial School of Arts ... stood down from the safe seat of Tenterfield so that Henry Parkes could re-enter politics. Cross over Molesworth St. In the next block, to the left ...

Henry Parkes ... when he gave his Tenterfield Oration. Much like US President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in 1863, Parkes’ speech was little reported at the time, but later took ...

What it's known for The unlikely duo of Sir Henry Parkes and singer Peter Allen vie for top billing as the most famous person associated with Tenterfield. Parkes, who was five times premier of NSW ...

To say the man who would become Sir Henry Parkes ... that would be Parkes’ real legacy, embodied in a short (just over 1000 words) speech delivered on 24 October 1889 at the Tenterfield School ...

SIR - The 1889 Tenterfield Oration does indeed give an English migrant, Henry Parkes, a key place in the story of Australian federation (report, Dec. 30). Yet the Commonwealth of Australia ...