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Jun 21, 1432
Che'ng Ho (AKA Zheng He)
He landed at northern coast of Australia. He came to Australia to trade for things that they didn’t have back in china. The aboriginals were good friends with Ch’eng Ho and his crew. They traded trapang which is a kind of seaslug. -
Dirk Hartog
Dirk Hartog landed A kilometer away from the West Coast of Australia. He left a plate saying “On the 25th October the ship Eendracht of Amsterdam arrived here. Upper merchant Gilles Miebais of Luick skipper Dirck Hatichs (Dirk Hartog) of Amsterdam. On the 27th we sail for Bantum. Under merchant Jan Stins upper sterman Pieter Doores of Bil Brielle)” -
Abel Janzsoon Tasman
Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, back then he called it Van Diemen’s Land. Abel Tasman called it Van DIemen's Land after the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. -
William Dampier
William Dampier was the first English person to explore parts of Australia, and the first person to go all around the world three times. -
Captain Cook
Cook went along the East, North East & South East -
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders sailed all around Australia, Flinders was the FIRST person/explorer to put Australia on the map correctly and the first to call Australia a continent. z -
First Fleet Part 1
11 ships came to Botany Bay, Australia carrying convicts and supplies.The convict ships were called The Alexander, The Charlotte, The Friendship, The Scarborough, The Lady Penrhyn & The Prince Of Wales. On board the ships there were 1480 men, women and children . The reason for these ships coming were because in England the prisons were too full (Because the population BOOMED and lots of people started stealing because they had no money to buy food.) -
First Fleet Part 2
The British were interested in land. The British also came to Australia because the Spanish, Dutch, French and lots of different powerful countries did not take/get Australia.
P E R S P E C T I V E S
Aboriginal : Quote “Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within" “These people are rich they have guns and we have spears” “Today 1500 people came, we didn’t know who they were but they shot one of my tribe in the leg, when that happened we went back into the bush because -
Australia Becomes A Nation
Before 1901, Australia was not a nation. At that time Australia consisted of six British Colonies which were kind of self-governing. Each colony had their own government, laws, railway system, postage stamps and their own taxes. This caused a lot of problems and people started to think about the benefits as one nation, not six different colonies.
P E R S P E C T I V E S
“When I heard that we were becoming one nation i was happy because being 6 different parts made lots of different problems." -
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World War 1
1915
The Australians went to war not only because we were making men over the age of 18 to go to war but also because Britain and other colonies in the british empire were going to war so the Australians went to war. The Australians also went to war because they were fighting for the British empire. But sadly many people died.
P E R S P E C T I V E S
“When I got sent to war they told us not only we were fighting for our country but we were there to be Britain’s and America’s allies” -
Australia & England's Relationship Today
Because of colonisation we now play cricket. We play cricket because we were influenced by Britain. Australians have Vegemite and the English have Marmite (Practically the same.) We have many things that have been influenced by England. England is now ruled by the queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary the 2nd. She is 89 years old. Elizabeth The 2nd is the Queen of 16 of the 53 member states in the Commonwealth. Including Australia.
