PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be on the invite list for a 125th year anniversary event of the Corowa Federation Conference in August this year.
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“This and future generations living here in Corowa will continue to draw their strength from these traditions and from their love of the country, and it will be this as much as anything else which carries the district through another century,” Mr Keating said in his speech.
“But I daresay if the people of Corowa were asked what most concerns them today, it would not be the past but the future.”
Federation Council agreed this week to formally invite Mr Turnbull and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack to an event still in the planning stages.
The council has been approached by marketing body, Destination Rutherglen, to stage an open house event in the Corowa-Rutherglen region coinciding with the 125-year federation celebrations.
Open House is a worldwide group which provides an opportunity for people to visit places of interest and engage in architecture with events outside capital cities considered rare.
It also has an extensive database available to promote the event.
The council has also been in talks with Federation Museum about a dinner being held in early August.
Cr Paul Miegel said council had to capitalise on its significance in the birthplace of federation.
“Any opportunity we get to cement our place in history and place on the map as something of note we should take them,” he said.
“I fully support bringing the prime minister down for this event.
“Perhaps to remind the federal politicians where it actually all started and pay a little bit of homage to the fact the conferences held in this town were the reason they are in the positions they are in now.”