The British colonies of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales" id="mwAYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland" id="mwAY0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Queensland">Queensland</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" id="mwAY4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australia" id="mwAY8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Australia">South Australia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania" id="mwAZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tasmania">Tasmania</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia" id="mwAZE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Australia" id="mwAZI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Federation of Australia">federate</a> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" id="mwAZM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Australia">Commonwealth of Australia</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Barton" id="mwAZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edmund Barton">Edmund Barton</a> is appointed the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" id="mwAZU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister</a>.<sup about="#mwt250" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-48"}}' id="cite_ref-48" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-48" id="mwAZY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 48;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAZc">[48]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-48"><cite about="#mwt247" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMeekins">Meekins, Jeannie. <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PkGtAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT15" id="mwDnU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwDnY">Sir Edmund Barton: The First Prime Minister of Australia: Educational Version</i></a>. Learning Island. pp.<span id="mwDnc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>15–. GGKEY:PBLCUNU87RW.</cite><span about="#mwt247" class="Z3988" id="mwDng" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Sir+Edmund+Barton%3A+The+First+Prime+Minister+of+Australia%3A+Educational+Version&amp;rft.pages=15-&amp;rft.pub=Learning+Island&amp;rft.aulast=Meekins&amp;rft.aufirst=Jeannie&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPkGtAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT15&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>