More than a century ago, the framers of the Australian constitution set out to create one country out of six different colonies.
To create one Australian nation, the only nation that spanned a continent on Earth. Our country wasn't called a kingdom or a state, rather we called ourselves a "commonwealth". The idea of a commonwealth is that no matter where we are from - from the Pilbara to Penrith or from Darwin to Devonport, we all share in the future and bounty of this land.
