Foundation 1901 News
“What is there that should be impossible to those people?”
Henry Parkes, The Crimson Thread speech, 6th February 1890.
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Henry Parkes’ Tenterfield Oration
Give a thought today to Henry Parkes’ Tenterfield Oration delivered 126 years ago on the 24th October 1889.
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Thankyou Mr Deakin!
Alfred Deakin has a suburb, university and a research institute named after him. But what is he remembered for?
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My thanks for our English heritage
Henry Parkes would be one whose life would be forever changed for the better by the Reform movement in England.
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Henry Parkes’ ‘Crimson Thread’ interpreted for modern Australia
The Henry Parkes Foundation has launched ‘The Crimson Thread’ to commemorate Parkes’ 200th birthday in a Parliament House event in Sydney on 27 May 2015.
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Henry Parkes born 27 May 1815
On this day, 200 years ago, a baby boy was born to parents, Thomas and Martha in a small farm cottage in Canley, Stoneleigh Estate in the Midlands of England. His name was Henry Parkes.
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Re:Think: Tax discussion paper
Today the Commonwealth Government released Re:Think: Tax discussion paper which aims to generate “an open and constructive conversation with the community on how we can create a better tax system”.
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