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befor 1788
Boys were taught to make hunting tools and girls were taught to cook and make fishing nets and bags to carry things. -
1788
Europeans arrivedin Austrralia.Catain Arthur Phillip established frist school in 1789. -
1797
6 schools open. -
1800
Governor King taxed all goods arriving to pay for schools. -
1801
Frist all girls school orphanaye opened. -
1810
Governor Lachlan Macquarie,all childen to go to school,even poor childen. -
1815
Native Institution,opened.Teaching Aboriginal childen to live like Europeans.School closed because Aboriginal parents wanted them to live the traditional way. -
1819
Governor Macquarie opened orphan boys school. -
1831
Many privite schools for wealth families but few schools for poor families. -
1848
Governor Fiteroy set up board of natinal education to open goverment schools throughout Australia. -
1848
Some parents of childen to school becaus the journey to long and dangerous. -
1850
Glodrush!!Schools were set up in tents on gold fields. Firstuniversity opened.The university of Sydey. -
1851
Frist school for teacher opened in Sydey. -
1872-1895
goverment of all settlement(later becomestates of Australia)set up compulsory freeschool for all childen ages to 6-13.However many childen didn't go to school.Many were to poor or helping parents. -
by1890
Goverment secordary school and first free kindergarden opened. -
Early 1900
The way childen were taught was changed in most primary schools.New subjects were developed childen memorise times tables took dictation tests. -
1929
School broadcast began on ABC radios. -
1950
Students had to stay in school until they were 15 years old. -
1951
Schools of air. Teachers used radios to talk to the students who lived hundreds of kilometres away in remote parts of australia. -
1960
Kindergarden became very popular. T.V. programs especially made for schools started brosdcasting.