a country made up of individual states with the power to make their own decisions, but with a national government responsible for areas such as foreign policy and defence 联邦;联邦政府
the process by which the six Australian coloniesjoined together on 1 January 1901 to create the Commonwealth of Australia 结盟(指1901年1月1日6个澳大利亚殖民地合并成立澳大利亚联邦)