Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
By Charlotte Harkins
Henry Parkes was known as the father of federation
He was born is 1815 And died in 1896
He started out as a farmer but hated it. He knew that he had to make more money so started running a news paper called the empier. The empier was about the rights for people. That lead him into parlement and he was priminster f 5 times in New South Wales.
Henry Parkes made many speeches about the colonies to join as one nation.
The colonies finialy joined as one nation because of his speech in 1901 just after he died.