Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-27In 1901, the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next 26 years, was governed from Melbourne. It was a small city, a place where people knew each othernot just the people who mattered, but those who didn't yetwhere small changes loomed large and the import of big changes could scarcely be imagined. Yet in the extraordinary first quarter of the twentieth century, the world lurched headlong into a new era. And this