24 October – The Tenterfield Oration is delivered by Henry Parkes, calling for the Federation of the states.
The town of Tenterfield suffered from the disunited administration of the States, as it was distant from the New South Wales state capital of Sydney and rather closer to commercial centres across the border in Queensland.
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