Happy Birthday Henry Parkes! We wouldn't be here today without you

By Harold Mitchell
Updated May 23 2015 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am

It's Henry Parkes' 200th birthday next Wednesday and it's worth recalling that it was his famous Tenterfield Oration on October 24, 1889 that propelled our young colony towards the great milestone of Federation in 1901.