Timelines...

DATE	WESTERN AUSTRALIA	AUSTRALIA	THE WORLD
1901	WA population 184 124 (excluding Aboriginal people)	1st January, Federation of States & Territories into Commonwealth of Australia under national constitution; States retained certain rights, some had own constitutions, which remained in effect where they did not clash with Federal Constitution Australia’s population reaches 1,795,873 women enfranchised to vote in national elections	Marconi transmits first radio signals across Atlantic Ocean
1903	Goldfields pipeline opened		First successful take-off, short flight & landing by an engine powered aircraft (Wright brothers in U.S.A.)
1905		Population of Australia reached 4 million (excluding Aboriginal people)
1908		Canberra chosen as site for Australian capital city.	In U.S.A. first T-model Ford automobile mass produced
1911	Royal Commission ‘Into the administration and conduct of the Fremantle Prison and matters incidental thereto’ established under Captain C. de F. Pennefather, Comptroller-General of Prisons in Queensland, result of which was to initiate changes & reforms at Fremantle Prison amongst which were demolishing walls between alternate cells in Main Cell Block to create bigger cells building of West Workshops erection of walls between divisions in Main Cell Block to assist in separation of prisoners of different classes	first of several expeditions to Antarctica by Douglas Mawson, explorer & scientist
1914		in August, Australia enters First World War on side of Allies	First World War (1914-1918) Robert H. Goddard begins rocketry experiments in U.S.A.
1915		April, Australian troops take part in landings at Gallipoli, Turkey
1917			Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921)
1918			First World War ended with signing of an armistice at 11am on 11 November (over 60,000 Australians died as result of this War’s conflicts)
1920	Portion of Fremantle Prison set aside as a Reformatory Prison under Prisons amendment Act 1918 – in effect, first offenders were kept separate from habitual offenders and recidivists. A Reformatory Prison was also established at Rottnest around this time
1921		Edith Cowan elected as first woman member of parliament. Aborigines included in the census for the first time.
1928		Royal Flying Doctor Service established	First scheduled public television broadcast in New York
1929			World economy suffers a Depression; mass unemployment (1929-1933)