• Thumbnail for Edmund Barton
    Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton GCMG KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920) was an Australian statesman, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister...
    58 KB (6,034 words) - 03:14, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edmund Barton Building
    The Edmund Barton Building (known originally as the Trade Group Offices) is a large Canberra office building positioned prominently on the Parliamentary...
    13 KB (1,140 words) - 07:12, 25 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edmund
    Congregation of Christian Brothers Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher Edmund Barton (1849−1920), Australian prime...
    8 KB (853 words) - 15:03, 8 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prime Minister of Australia
    and one woman) have served as prime minister, the first of whom was Edmund Barton taking office on 1 January 1901 following federation of the British...
    52 KB (5,229 words) - 01:49, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barton, Australian Capital Territory
    of Barton began in 1922. The first stage of the heritage-listed Barton Housing Precinct began in 1926 and 1927. It was named after Sir Edmund Barton, the...
    13 KB (1,218 words) - 21:52, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alfred Deakin
    Attorney-General of Australia in the ministry led by his close friend Edmund Barton. He succeeded Barton as prime minister in September 1903. Two subsequent elections...
    72 KB (8,384 words) - 20:29, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Division of Barton
    of Barton is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1922 and is named for Sir Edmund Barton, the...
    12 KB (533 words) - 14:39, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1901 Australian federal election
    1903 election, Barton resigned to become a founding member of the High Court of Australia, and was replaced by Alfred Deakin. Edmund Barton entered parliament...
    42 KB (2,531 words) - 01:22, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federation of Australia
    the Colony of New South Wales, was instrumental in this process. Sir Edmund Barton, second only to Parkes in the length of his commitment to the federation...
    48 KB (5,631 words) - 04:32, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of prime ministers of Australia
    death of each prime minister from 1901. The first prime minister was Edmund Barton in the early 20th century. Each dark coloured bar denotes the time spent...
    63 KB (1,607 words) - 21:50, 27 April 2024
  • rural areas of New South Wales. Its most prominent leaders were Sir Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin, who were the first and second prime ministers of...
    13 KB (1,091 words) - 08:46, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barton ministry
    The Barton ministry (Protectionist) was the 1st ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 1st prime minister, Sir Edmund Barton...
    10 KB (168 words) - 07:26, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barton Highway
    Melbourne to Canberra. It is named in honour of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia. Barton Highway commences at the interchange with Hume...
    18 KB (1,483 words) - 02:50, 15 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flag of Australia
    submitted to the British Colonial Secretary in 1902. Prime Minister Edmund Barton announced in the Commonwealth Gazette that King Edward VII had officially...
    73 KB (8,341 words) - 11:10, 27 April 2024
  • Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved 2 November 2021. "Edmund Barton". Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved...
    28 KB (660 words) - 20:54, 19 April 2024
  • is a list of nicknames of prime ministers of Australia. Full name: Edmund Barton Toby Tosspot Full name: Alfred Deakin Affable Alfred Full name: John...
    16 KB (1,158 words) - 17:40, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for White Australia policy
    Australia became a federation in January 1901, the federal government of Edmund Barton passed the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901; this was drafted by...
    91 KB (10,049 words) - 05:09, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun
    Hopetoun was forced to turn to Edmund Barton to serve as Australia's first prime minister. His relationship with Barton once in office was civil, although...
    35 KB (3,969 words) - 22:09, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for English Australians
    Australian Prime Ministers have had whole or partial Anglo-Celtic ancestry. Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister, 1901–1903 (English parents) Alfred Deakin, 2nd...
    30 KB (2,350 words) - 05:21, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jane Barton
    media related to Jane Barton. Jane Mason "Jeanie" Barton (née Ross; 11 June 1851 – 23 March 1938) was the wife of Sir Edmund Barton, the 1st Prime Minister...
    7 KB (798 words) - 23:04, 27 November 2021
  • Sydney (see below) Reid Fisher Cook Hughes Gillard Abbott Gorton Watson Barton Holt McMahon Keating Howard Turnbull Morrison Albanese Deakin Bruce Whitlam...
    15 KB (301 words) - 11:10, 8 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Australian Federation Flag
    The flag was a favourite of Australia's first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton, who asked that a variant be considered for approval along with the...
    5 KB (518 words) - 01:01, 29 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Governor-General of Australia
    Hopetoun Blunder, he appointed the first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton, to a caretaker government, with the inaugural 1901 federal election...
    92 KB (9,606 words) - 21:17, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Australian Federal Police
    their final appearance at the opening of the AFP's new Headquarters in Barton on 7 April 2011. The AFP Ceremonial and Protocol team currently provide...
    43 KB (3,485 words) - 13:13, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Historical rankings of prime ministers of Australia
    Andrew Fisher 51 51   4 Malcolm Fraser 36 36   0 James Scullin 30 30   2 Edmund Barton Not further specified (1–29) 1 John Gorton 0 Joseph Lyons 0 Chris Watson...
    28 KB (1,808 words) - 15:18, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for High Court of Australia
    included appeals from a state supreme court. Sir Samuel Griffith Sir Edmund Barton Sir Adrian Knox Sir Isaac Isaacs Sir George Rich Sir Garfield Barwick...
    100 KB (10,222 words) - 11:17, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barton government
    The Barton government was the first federal executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia. It was led by Prime Minister Sir Edmund Barton, from...
    17 KB (2,041 words) - 21:00, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Banjo Paterson
    and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, related to the future first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton. Paterson's family lived on the isolated...
    35 KB (3,309 words) - 10:30, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1901 Federal Flag Design Competition
    was an Australian government initiative announced by Prime Minister Edmund Barton to find a flag for the newly federated Commonwealth of Australia. In...
    9 KB (1,213 words) - 15:33, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Lodge, Australia
    this time, there was no official residence for the prime minister. Edmund Barton, the first prime minister, initially lived in "a kind of bachelor flat"...
    30 KB (3,040 words) - 06:08, 29 February 2024