However, Parkes' 200th anniversary is an appropriate occasion to take another look at the qualities that underlie great national leadership. Just consider Henry Parkes' background.

By Sir Henry Parkes. With portraits. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green & Co. Dec. 19, 1892 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from December 19, 1892, Page 3 Buy Reprints ...

More than a century ago, Sir Henry Parkes put forward a vision for our federation of a united but diverse Australia, intergenerationally bound together by a liberty that transcended our race ...

Sir Henry Parkes, the father of federation, circa 1887. To say the man who would become Sir Henry Parkes had a tough childhood is an understatement.

Sir Henry Parkes' railway legacy was well demonstrated when, on January 8, 1901, one week after Federation celebrations in Sydney, 1200 people travelled by two trains as part of an official south ...

It was 1868 when Lucy Osburn travelled from England to set up the first nursing school in the colony, at Sydney Hospital. 'Father of Federation' Sir Henry Parkes had contacted Florence Nightingale ...

WHEN Sir Henry Parkes threw open the gates to Centennial Park in 1888, he declared it "the people's park", free for all to enjoy.

Before his death in 1896, Parkes represented the northern beaches on a number of occasions, but what few may know is that his eldest grandson, Henry Thom, drowned in Manly in 1895. Parkes was born ...

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 would not hold back the man who, arguably, was the most ...