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  the second fleet known as the death fleet arrives also 248 of the convicts and crew died.
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  two new governors arrived and the second one [bligh] gets overthrown also it outraged sydneys population.
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  lachlan macquarie declares the express purpose of the colony t provide the convicts the opportunity to start again and have a new chance in life the british goverment is not happy so they send outs commissioner bigge to conduct an inquiry into the latest lax settlement.
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  expansion of the te population, puts extreme presure on the indigenous population black war taking place
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  governors have drawn lines on the map of the colonies, to delineate the limits of settlement.
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  john glover arrives in tasmania in troubiling times.
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  gold rush starts everyoe coming to australia.
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  white explorers make it for the first time all tyhe way across the australian continent. some perish on the way back.
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  ned kelly becomes an outlaw. and threatens wholesale and retail slaughter.
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  the bulletin weekely news magazine is launched as a secular, republican, xenophobic and radical publication and a declared friend of workers and '' the bush''.
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  catastrophe strikes. heavy colonial debts to london banks and a global downturn commodity prices lead to to wholesale banking collapse