Everything about North Australia totally explained
North Australia can refer to the territory, the colony or the proposed state.==Territory==
North Australia was a short-lived
territory of
Australia. On
February 1 1927, the
Northern Territory was split into two territories, North Australia and
Central Australia. On
June 12 1931, the two were reunited as Northern Territory. The Commonwealth legislation giving force to the separation was the
North Australia Act 1926.
Colony
A
colony of
North Australia existed briefly after it was authorised of a
letters patent of 17 February 1846 which included all land in the Northern Territory and the present state of
Queensland lying north of 26ºS. The
capital was at
Port Curtis now called
Gladstone under
Colonel George Barney as
Lieutenant-Governor and Superintendent.
Charles Augustus FitzRoy, the
Governor of New South Wales, was Governor. The
Letters Patent establishing the colony were revoked in December the same year, after a change of government in Britain, although Barney and his party didn't receive the news and return to
Sydney until 1847, when the news arrived in Sydney on 15 April 1847. The colony was intended as a new
penal colony after the end of
transportation in the older Australian colonies.
Future State
North Australia has also been proposed as the name to be adopted by the Northern Territory if it becomes a state of Australia.
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