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Captain James Cook chartered the east coast and claimed it for Britain.
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First Fleet of 11 ships carrying 1500 people. And in 1868 the penal transprotation ended, 160 00 men and women came to Australia as convicts.
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They began to navigate whilethe life for prisoners was harsh.
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Gold was discovered in New South Wales and central Victoria. Lot of people and lot of boats arrived for it.
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Australia'six states became a nation under a single constitution.
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There were less than 3 millions men, 400 000 of them volunteered to fight in the war. It has devastating effect on Australia.
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Hundreds of thousands of migrants from across Europe and the Middle East arrived in Australia, many finding jobs in the booming manufacturing sector.
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Australia's economy grew with major nation-building projects such as the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in the mountains near Canberra.
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Australian voted overwhelmingly ''yes'' in a national referendum to let the federal government make laws on behalf of Aboriginal Australians and Aboriginals are included in future censuses.
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Australia Labor Party was elected to power, for to ending the post-war domination of the Liberal and Country Party coalition.
