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  the dutch sell to Australia
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  Captain James cook sailed around Australia
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  british ships called the first fleet left england with convicts to establish a prison colony
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  new south wales was officially a penal colony consisting mainly of convicts marines and the marines famlies
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  the commonwealth of australia was established
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  Melbourne served as the national capital until canberra was completed in 1927
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  federal gonvernment began to pass legislation to help the abotigines
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  Australia act all legal ties with the british empire were severed
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  Australia of voters rejected the idea of becoming an independent republic