Edmund Barton

Edmund Barton became Australia’s first prime minister on New Year’s Day 1901, at a huge public ceremony in Centennial Park in Sydney. Prime minister from 1 January 1901 to 24 September 1903.

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National Library of Australia, obj-136196583

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