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Aboriginal people arrived in Australia by boat from South East Asia during the last Ice Age, 50,000 years ago.
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In 1770 Captain James Cook was the first European to discover Australia.
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he First Fleet was a ship filled with convicts who were the first Englishman to sail to Australia. The convicts had broken the law in England. They were sent to prison in England, but the prison was to full.
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Gold was discovered in New South Wales and central Victoria.
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The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation.
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There were less than 3 millions men in 1914 and the First World War had a devastating effect on Australia. An estimated 60 000 died and tens of thousands were wounded.
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After the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of migrants from across Europe and the Middle East arrived in Australia.
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In 1967 a national referendum makes laws on behalf of Aboriginal Australians and include them in future censuses.
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In 2007 Kevin Rudd was elected. His program was full of new objects to reform Australia.
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Prime minister Kevin Rudd apologised for the stolen generations and for the things that the government did to Aboriginals for the past 220 years.
