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Europeans travel to Australia to explore the new found land.
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James Cook traveled around and in Australia making a map. Also naming the city New South Whales.
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British ship called the First Fleet left England with convicts to establish a prison colony.
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Australia soon became a prison colony for the captured and criminals.
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After the first fleet New South Whales became a penal colony for convicts and Marine families.
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1833 the hardest criminals were sent to the Island of Tasmania of the coast of Australia.
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The British kept sending prisoners up until 1868.
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Restricted migration to people primarily of European descent.
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Canberra was founded as the new capital
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Federal government began to pass legislation to help
the Aborigines.
