Editing Australian Natives' Association (section)

== Australian Natives' Association ==
In 1872, it was voted to extend membership to men born in the other Australian colonies and to change the name at the same time.<ref>{{cite web|date=27 April 1872|title=News|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5861969|access-date=21 December 2012|work=The Argus|publisher=National Library of Australia (Trove Australia)}}</ref>  The association started to grow and form new branches initially around Melbourne and then in the golds fields towns of [[Ballarat]] and Sandhurst (now [[Bendigo]]) in 1874 and Neangor (now [[Eaglehawk, Victoria|Eaglehawk]]) 1876.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Menadue|first=J. E.|title=A Centenary History of The Australian Natives' Association 1871 - 1971|publisher=Horticultural Press|year=1971|location=Melbourne|pages=33–40}}</ref>  In 1878 the Sandhurst branch initiated a motion that the Association allow having debates or essays at the meetings after the business had been completed.<ref>{{Cite web|date=21 September 1878|title=Bendigo Advertiser|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88204949?searchTerm=natives%27%20honorary%20member|url-status=live|access-date=20 May 2021|website=TROVE NLA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520051111/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88204949?searchTerm=natives'%20honorary%20member |archive-date=20 May 2021 }}</ref>  The membership population centre of the Association moved to the gold fields towns west of Melbourne as the membership of these branches grew. The administration also moved West with the election of F. C. Wainwright, a member in Ballarat, as General Secretary in 1881.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Menadue|first=J. E.|title=A Centenary History of The Australian Natives' Association 1871 - 1971|publisher=Horticultural Press|year=1971|location=Melbourne|pages=P381 - 382}}</ref> As the Association grew, it was decided in 1890 to move administration back to Melbourne.<ref name=":0" /> The Association played a leading role in the movement for Australian [[Federation of Australia|federation]] in the last 20 years of the 19th century. In 1900, it had a membership of 17,000, mainly in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]].

The ANA provided sickness, medical, and funeral cover. Membership in the ANA was restricted to men born in Australia, at a time when Australian-born people of European descent (not including [[Indigenous Australians]]) were rising to power in place of an older generation born in Britain. In the 1890s, for the first time, the native-born became the majority of the population.

The organisation received criticism for their name, including from Aboriginal leader and activist [[William Cooper (Aboriginal Australian)|William Cooper]] over the appropriation of the term 'native'.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Broome|first1=Richard|title=Aboriginal Victorians: A History since 1800|date=2005|publisher=Allen and Unwin|location=Sydney|page=306}}</ref>

Former [[List of chief presidents of the Australian Natives' Association|Chief President]] [[James Hume Cook]] described as "three great principles" of the A.N.A:<ref name=":3" /><blockquote>The maintenance of a [[White Australia policy|White Australia]].<ref name=":3" />

The Made-in-Australia movement.

The broadening of the Commonwealth Constitution.</blockquote>