Abstract
Centennial Park was opened in 1888 to mark a century of European colonization in Australia. From its conception, the park was popularly acclaimed as both a symbolic and a functional site. It became a venue for cricket, horse riding and golf, while park plantings carne to afford sylvan pleasures for the ‘tired-toiler’. Having marked the Centenary, its symbolic status was further enhanced on 1 January 1901. Then, 250 000 people gathered on the slopes of a natural amphitheatre to ‘witness’ the Federation of the former colorues with the swearing in of the first Governor General and the signing of an Australian Constitution.
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