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Aboriginal people arrived in Australia by boat from South East Asia during the last Ice Age, 50,000 years ago.
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In 1770 the Captain James Cook chartered the east coast and claimed it for Britain.
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Australia became a new penal colony of the United Kingdom, until 1868. By that time about 160.000 people, including men and women, were hosted in jails.
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After 1820s, many soldiers started turning the lands they had received from government into flourishing farms.
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In 1851, gold was discovered in Victoria and New South Wales. Because of this many boats left China full of prospectors captivated by the gold fever.
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Australian's six states became a nation on 1 January 1901 under a constitution.
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In the 1914 Australia went to war but the effects have been truly catastrophic, with 60,000 died and tens of thousands were wounded.
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After the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of migrants from across Europe and the Middle East arrived in Australia.
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In 1967 a national referendum makes laws on behalf of Aboriginal Australians and include them in future censuses.
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In 2007 Kevin Rudd was elected. His program was full of new objects to reform Australia.
