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History
The Dutch/ Netherlands first to sail to Australia, but didn't stay at all. -
James Cook
James Cook clamed land for England in Southeast Australia and named the area New South Wales. -
Prison Colonies
British ships took convicts over to Australia -
prisoners settle in
Brisish prisoners settled in Australia. Prison colonies consisted mainly of convicts. -
Getting establish
Government created boundries for the colonies. Also commonwealth was establised in Australia. -
settling in
Britan stopped transporting pisoners over to Australia. Soon immigrants started settling there. -
Getting started
Melbourne served as the nationl capilal till Canberra was completed. Non-Caucasians were not alloud to imigrate to Austraila. -
Aborigines
Aborigine children were takened away from there families. In 1967 Federal government passed legislation to help Aborigines. -
Australian Act
All legal ties with the British empire. -
Voting
55% of the voters in Austalia rejected the idea of becoming an indipendent republic. -
Fun Facts
Did you know that today many Aborigines people don't even know there parents, grandparents,nor the native language. " they are a lost generation".