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First Europeans (Dutch) Reach the west side of Australia but are attacked by Indigenous people forcing them to retreat. This expedition concluded to the dutch that Australian is not worth inhabiting.
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Australia became penal colonies and there was no escape. There were only very few indigenous left at this point.
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Captain Cook's first voyage to Australia and step foot on Botany Bay in Sydney.
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On 13 May 1787, the First Fleet of 11 ships and about 1,530 people (736 convicts, 17 convicts' children, 211 marines, 27 marines' wives, 14 Marines' children and about 300 officers and others) under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip had set sail for Botany Bay.
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In 1788, the European settlers have settled into Australia and have built colonies along the eastern coast.
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The NSW colonies with the convicts slaving the land, guards watching over them and their families.
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Between 1788 and 1792 about 3546 male and 766 female convicts were landed at Sydney which many were professional criminals with few of the skills required for the establishment of a colony.
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The food situation reached crisis point in 1790 and the Second Fleet which finally arrived in June 1790 which had lost a quarter of its "passengers" through sickness, but accommodated the colonies need for food.
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The Second Fleet of convicts arrives in Sydney Cove. Bringing with it more convicts, supplies and officers.
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When the Bellona transport came to anchor in Sydney Cove, she brought with her the first immigrant free settlers. They were: Thomas Rose, a farmer from Dorset, his wife and four children; he was allowed a grant of 120 acres; Thomas Webb and Edward Powell each received a grant of 80 acres, and Joseph Webb and Frederic Meredith received 60 acres each.
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Brisbane is founded
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Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
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New Zealand is proclaimed.
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Australia is proclaimed a nation which the Queen of Britain has established us as a federation.
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The removal of indigenous children, by which mixed-race children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent were removed from their families by Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions.