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| 1900 |
| | | Australia's Salvation Army produces an ambitious presentation of film and slides in Soldiers of the Cross | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Six separate Australian colonies combine to form the independent Commonwealth of Australia | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Australia passes an Immigration Restriction Act to underpin the White Australia policy | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Story of the Kelly Gang, produced in Australia, is the first feature-length film, with a running time of nearly an hour | |
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| 1907 |
| | | New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Parliament in Australia chooses Canberra as the site of the nation's new capital | |
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| 1911 |
| | | In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories | |
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| 1913 |
| | | A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film | |
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| c. 1915 |
| | | The inflationary pressures of world war force nations to abandon the established gold standard | |
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