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Arrival of Europeans
Captain James Cook arrives on the east coast and claimed it for Britain. They are not the first poeple to discover Australia because Aboriginal lives in Australia since - 5000. -
160 000 poeple came in Australia as convicts
In 1788, the first fleet of 11 ships arrived with 1 500 poeple, half of them convicts. The penal transportation ended in 1868, 160 000 poeple came in Australia as convicts. -
Australia becomes a Nation
Australia become a nation under a governement. -
Australia destroyed by war
400 000 of the 3 million poeple who lives in Australia go to the war.
60 000 died and tens of thousand have been blessed. -
Australia at the end of the Second World War
They were well involved to the Allied victory in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Australian who survives came out of the war with pride in relation to Australian capacity. -
Post-war
Hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived accros the Europe and the Middle East. Many found a job in manufacturing sector. -
Revolution
Australian new ethnic diversity, the independence from Britain and the resistance from the Vietnam War contribuated to a political, economic and social change. -
Australian voted
In 1967, Austrlian voted overwhelmingly 'yes' to let the federal governement makes laws on behalf of the Aboriginal. It proviked a reform campaign from Aboriginal and white Australian. -
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party was elected to the power. His governement ended conscription, abolished university fees and introduced free universal health care, it also has other introduced equal pay for women. -
Liberal-National Coalition
Scandal led to the Governor-General to resign form the government. After that, the Labor Party suffered a defeat and the Liberal-National Coalition ruled until 1983
