new colony set up for convicts on Tasmania. Free settlers soon follow.
Gold discovered in Australia even more settlers arrive population now nearly half a million.
By now , about half the people living in Australia were born there.
By now, all six provinces or territories are "self-governing".
new province set up : Victoria (named after the British queen of that time)
Four of the five provinces of Australia granted "self-government", they manage most of their own affaires but are still part of the British Empire
the last colony to be created : Queensland
Now, over 80% of people in Australia were born there. The six colonies meet to draw up a set of rules about how to run Australia as a united country, independent of Britiain.
The "Commonwealth of Australia" comes into existence all the territories form one "federation" with its own Parliement. But the British monarch remains the head of state.
