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religion
The british brought their churches to Australia such as the church of England. -
Farming
These farmers grew wheat and raised sheep which were brought over from Europe. It was quickly determined that Australia was suited very well to the production of high quality wool. This wool became the cornerstone for Australian agriculture for many years and is still known today as one of the finest and softest wools in the world. -
Explorer
Mattew Flinders is an English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent. Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean. -
Australia explorer
Matthew Flinders (March 16, 1774 - July 19, 1814) was an English explorer, naval officer and navigator who circumnavigated (sailed entirely around) Australia and mapped much of its coastline. He and George Bass were the first Europeans to realize that Tasmania was an island; they sailed around it. -
bushrangers
Black Caesar escaped into the bush in 1790 with a musket where he later joined five or six other escaped convicts. he survived by hunting and fishing in the bush as well as receiving food and musket shot provided by sympathetic settlers. the reward to catch him was 5 gallons of rum. he eventually got shot. -
Explorer
John Batman was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer. He settled in the north-east of the Van Diemen's Land Colony in the 1820s, -
Massacres
Fighting began on an organised scale early in 1822, when an important leader of the Wiradjuri named Windradyne was captured by British soldiers. During 1823 there was a series of raids carried out by the Wiradjuri war party including scattering and spearing the livestock which were eating the animal food sources of the region. In most cases the Aboriginals raided targeted known enemies who had killed, raped or robbed Wiradjuri people. Early in June 1824, the troops of the 2nd Somerst Regiment mo -
bushranger
Ned Kelly was a bushranger. he was arrested for stealing a number of items to give them to the poor. He wore a iron breastplate and helment. -
bushranger
The most famous of the convict bolters was Jack Donahue, an Irishman who arrived in Sydney in 1825, aged eighteen. He was serving a life sentence for theft. Donahue spent his first two years as an assigned convict and, later, in a road gang. But in 1828 he escaped and was joined by two other bolters. The gang started robbing bullock drays on the Sydney-Windsor road. The three men were soon caught: two were hanged but Donahue escaped. For the next six months he led another gang that worked in the -
WA explorer
In 1827 Captain James Stiling explored Swan River as a possible settlement site. He proclaimed the colony on 18th of june 1829. The farming conditions were not as good as expected. It was up to the new settlers to make the best of what they found -
bushranger
Dan Morgan was born in Campbelltown, New South Wales, in about 1830. His mother was an Irish convict. Even as a teenager, Morgan was in trouble for attacking policemen and stealing.When he was twenty, he left for the Victorian goldfields. Four years later he was charged with robbery and sentenced to twelve years' hard labour. Morgan served only six years before he was allowed to go free with a ticket of leave. He fled back to New South Wales and started robbing travellers and farms. Unlike many -
WA's name
The swan river colony was renamed Western Australia -
WA massacres
From the battle of Pinjarra also called the pinjarra massacres, in 1834 against the Binjared. Binjared vs europeans. Many people died. -
WA farming
WA had farmed wool and is now exporting it. -
NSW explorer
Edmund Kennedy (1818-1848) was an explorer and the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, Australia. Kennedy explored the interior of Queensland, Australia, including the Thomson River, the Barcoo River, Cooper's Creek, and the Cape York Peninsula. -
transport
Transportation to the colony of New South Wales was officially abolished on 1 October 1850, and in 1853 the order to abolish transportation to Van Diemen's Land was formally announced. -
transport
shipment of convicts disembarked in Western Australia in 1868, the total number of transported convicts stood at around 162,000 men and women. They were transported here on 806 ships. -
bushranger
Captain Moonlite's real name was George Scott. His is one of the strangest stories of any of the bushrangers. In 1869 George Scott was a preacher at the small church in the town of Egerton in Victoria.He admired the Kelly gang, and made a sudden decision to becomes bushranger himself. One night he put on a mask, woke the manager of the local bank, and forced him to go to the bank and hand over more than a thousand pounds.
The bank manager, who knew George Scott well, couldn't believe what was ha -
Wa and farming
The sheep and wheat being the mainstay of the economy.