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Captain James Cook - First Voyage
Captain James Cook sailed on his first voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
He sailed on the famous HMS Endeavour (His Majesties Ship) across the Pacific with an additional instruction from the Admiralty, which was for the second part of his voyage. This instruction was to search the south Pacific for the true rich southern continent of Terra Australis (Southern Land).
Later Cook went west after New Zealand, reaching the south-eastern coastline of Australia on the 19th of April 1770. -
First Fleet
The First Fleet left Britain in 1787, for Australia carrying more than 580 convicts.
Many families of the convict, ship crew, officials and passengers and marines came along and that made it 1,420 people who came along on the First Fleet.
When they arrived in Sydney Cove, NSW on the 26th of January 1788, they put up the Flag of Great Britain and on that day, they announced it Australia Day. The Indigenous people did not like this and they call it Invasion Day. -
The Colonial Government Promotion
In 1815, the Colonial Government decided to promote the migration of free settlers and limited land leases for 14 years in Australia. This was to improve the good tone of the colony.
The Colonial Government tried to get people settle in Australia by paying their fares, helping them set up farms and businesses, but they put them right next to the wealthy families and many did not like the competition given. -
John Pascoe Fawkner - The Enterprize
In 1835, John Pascoe Fawkner decided to move to Victoria after being in three years hard labour in Newcastle for letting 7 convicts escape. He purchased the Enterprize to search for a suitable site in Port Phillip Bay.
On the 15th of August, the Enterprize entered the Yarra River and was pushed upstream and ‘she’ was moored at the foot of, what is now known as, William Street. -
A Ship Per Week
As time went by, soon there were many people in the south-eastern side of Australia. The Colonial Government got a British immigrant ship arriving every week in Port Phillip Bay. The first non-British immigrant ship that arrived in Port Phillip Bay was from Germany, which arrived in 1848. -
Chinese Migration
Californian gold rush attracts tens of thousands of people from Europe, Latin America, Australia and China. In 1850 California introduces a new tax on alien gold miners, targeting the Chinese. -
Gold Rush
The Gold Rush was one of the largest amount of migrants that came to Australia because of the discovery of gold. Many Europeans, Irish, and Chinese miners travelled from all over the world to seek the gold that was found by other miners. The chinese were being more ill-treated because of their different cultures than the europeans and the irish. -
Immigration Restriction Act
Victoria introduces the first Immigration Restriction Act in Australia aimed at limiting Chinese immigration. Other Australian colonies soon follow. -
1860s Resisting Migrants
Local Indigenous populations continue to resist settlers and immigrants. Killings of local Aboriginal populations continue across Australia until the early 1900s. -
Charles Darwin's Descent of Man
Charles Darwin's Descent of Man is published which would fundamentally influence political and social theories about the origins, evolution and hierarchies of human races. 'Although the existing races of man differ in many respects, as in colour, hair, shape of skull, proportions of the body, etc, yet if their whole organisation be taken into consideration they are found to resemble each other in a multitude of points.' -
The Dying Race
Aboriginal people are believed to be a dying race, requiring children of mixed descent to be absorbed into the 'white' community. The Aborigines Act officially commences the removal of Aboriginal children in Victoria. -
White Australian Policy
The phrase 'White Australia policy' first appears in William Lane's publication The Boomerang in Brisbane. -
Charles Pearson
Charles Pearson, Australian historian, educationist, politician and journalist,
publishes National Life and Character. A Forecast, in which he predicts that the 'higher races of men' would within a few decades find themselves 'elbowed and hustled and perhaps even thrust aside' by people whom they had assumed to be innately servile. The ideas would be taken up by future prime ministers Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin to defend the White Australia policy. -
The White Australia Policy
In 1901, the new federal government passed an Act ending the employment of Pacific Islanders. The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 received royal assent on 23 December 1901. It was described as an Act 'to place certain restrictions on immigration and to provide for the removal from the Commonwealth of prohibited immigrants'. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-1932) started when The Wall Street stock market collapse occured. During the great depression the unemplyment list doubled to 21% only in Australia. During The Great Depression immigrants searching for work in australia where sent back to thier home country. -
Jewish Immigration.
In 1938 500,000 German-Jweish families escaped the Nazis and traveled to Australia. The German Jewish families for forced out of German because of prejudice behaviour from the Nazis.
The German-Jewish families also luckily escaped World War 2
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Post World War 2 European Migration (1945-1969)
During World War 2 most of Europe was destroyed which meant that they had to migrate to another country. Over 170,000 Europeans immigrated into Australia to find a new life. When they came they where given all the manual labouring jobs like, operating the snowy river scheme and other things. They where treated very badly by Australian's becuase of how they looked and spoke. -
Post World War 2 British Migration (1945-1969)
Post World War 2 over 1 Million Britsih men, women & children immigrated to Australia because of the new policy "Populate or Perish". The Australian & British government came up with the idea of 10-Pound Poms. This meant the British men, women & children could pay 10 Pounds to immigrate to Australia. -
Change of migrant policy
The change of the migrant policy -
Racial Discrimination Act
In 1975, the Racial Discrimination Act porhibits discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, colour descent or ethnicity. -
The last migrant carrying ocean liner
The last migrant carrying ocean liner docks in Melbourne -
Refugee
The commonwealth government ends passage for all except for refugees -
One nation party
The One Nation Party is founded on a platform opposed to multiculturalism, Asian immigration and Aboriginal land claims. -
Refusal
The Norwegian freighter Tampa carrying over 430 rescued asylum seekers is refused permission to enter Australia.
