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Cheng Ho
The chinese discovered the northern coast of Australia so they could trade with the Aboriginals to get valuable things like trepang (seaslug)and gold. -
Dirk Hartog
Dirk Hartog was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land on Australian soil, He was the first to leave behind an artifact to record his visit, the Hartog plate -
Abel Tasman
Abel tasman discovered Tasmania and called it Van diemen's land. This event in History was pretty important because as it got later in time people came to Australia for a better life and because Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania people knew about. -
Captain Cook finds the East Coast of Australia
Captain Cook Sailed Around the east coast of Australia and claimed some land now called Australia. He named a place called Botany Bay which is now near the Sydney harbor. Botany Bay is also the place were the First Fleet landed. He also found some more land which he called stingray bay. Captain Cooks exploration to Australia changed everything. He told England about the exploration and they sent convicts there. If captain cook never came to Australia there would still be a massive population of -
Captai Cook
be a massive population of Aboriginals still. He came to Australia because 1768, England sent an expedition to Tahiti to chart the transit of Venus across the sun. Captain Cook was in charge of the expedition on the converted coal carrier HMS Endeavour. After completing the astronomical task of observing the transit of Venus, Captain Cook set out to see if there was a Great South Land( Australia) – the land that navigators had believed existed for hundreds of years. -
Matthew Flinders
He traveled all around Australia and was the first to put it on the map correctly. He was an england Explorer he was also the first to call Australia a continent. -
First Fleet
6 boats filled with convicts (prisoners) 2 navy ships and 3 full of supplies came to botany bay. They came because Captain cook had already discovered it and made friends with the aboriginals. England colonized Australia because there jails in England are filling up and they can’t hang everyone so they came to Australia so the convicts could get there punishment. The jail filled up in England because people were put in jail for small things like stealing a piece of bread. They also came to Au -
First Fleet
They also came to Australia to make a bigger Empire, so the dutch spanish and more powerful countries did not take Australia. Also America just came independent so they wanted more land. The Aboriginals of the land would of felt defenceless. This a quote from a convict in Australia “We have to work from 14–18 hours a day, sometimes up to our knees in cold water, 'til we are ready to sink with fatigue... The inhuman driver struck one, John Smith, with a heavy thong.”
Martin Shipton, a convict -
woman get to vote
South Australia gave women the right to vote in 1894; Western Australia followed on in 1899, and New South Wales in 1902. That same year women Australia-wide were granted suffrage in Commonwealth elections. The was a group called the suffragette. This group stood up for women did lots of protest. Then finally the men said yes you can vote.
“I cant wait till women get to vote because i am sick of men telling us what to do”
Suffragette -
Australia becomes a federation
Australia became an independent country on 1 January 1901 when the British Parliament passed laws allowing the six Australian colonies ( states) to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia was established as a constitutional monarchy. 'Constitutional' because the Commonwealth of Australia was established with a written constitution, and 'monarchy' because Australia's head of state was Queen Victoria. -
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WW1
Australia was involved in war because Australia is part of the commonwealth and when Britain got into war Australia was England's ally so they had to go to backup England. Also Australia was part of the triple entente.
Peter:Grandpa, why did you go all that way to Europe to?
Grandfather: Well my had only lived in Australia for 20 years when the war started. Britain was still our home, and if Britain was fighting war, we wanted to be there to help -
How England effected Australia
England has effected Australia ever since the colonization. We have the queen on all of our Money. We used haved pounds but now change to dollars. We are involved in the Commonwealth Games which is like the olympics but only with countries in the Commonwealth. Also cricket is from Britain and now it is now is a very Australian. Also our country is run by the england queen.
