Federal Council of Australasia
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The Federal Council of Australiasia was a fore-runner to the current Commonwealth of Australia, though its structure and members were different. It consisted of the then British Colonies of New Zealand, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Fiji, and others. New South Wales never joined the Council. It was a limited legislative body that met eight times in the last two decades of the nineteenth century to discuss matters of national importance. It had no power to enforce its decisions beyond that provided by the member colonies.
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