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The Australian Eagle
If there be a lion in the way of “federation under the crown,” there is also an eagle—hear his first scream.
“He believed in the union of Australia and the founding of an Australian nation, and he spoke the mind of a great many members in that House. (Opposition cheers.)
If they were to depart from their present Constitution let it be to have a flag of their own under an independent Constitution as the United States of Australia. (Opposition cheers.)
He held these opinions as a native of the soil and he claimed that they were as well entitled to be considered as those of the Premier, who was not a native of the soil. The time was not ripe for separation yet, and he would not be one to do anything to bring about a severance at the present time. (Hear, hear.”)
This country had one of the grandest futures that any country in the world eon Id possess. That future was to be built up by the creation of a new order of things under the flag of the United States of Australia.” (Cheers.)—Dibbs’ Speech.
