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1907
 
    
New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion       
1908
 
   
Parliament in Australia chooses Canberra as the site of the nation's new capital      
1911
 
    
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories       
1913
 
    
A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra       
1915
 
    
Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film       
c. 1915
 
   
The inflationary pressures of world war force nations to abandon the established gold standard      
1916
 
   
New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies sets up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot, a British military base      
1917
 
    
Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father       
1920
 
    
New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies publishes a pioneering text book, Plastic Surgery of the Face       
1922
 
   
D.H. Lawrence takes a house in Sydney, where he writes the bulk of his novel Kangaroo