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1770:Captain James sail around Australia.Cook named the area The New South Wales ,ignored the Aborigines living there and claimed the land for England
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First Europeans to sail to Australia were the Dutch(Netherlands) in 1606 but they didn't settle there
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1788 to 1832: New South Wales was officialy a prison colony consisting mainly of convicts.
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Nonprisoners colonization continued ... In 1901 the first Commonwealth of Australia was established.
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Originally, Australia promoted a policy called "White Australia "
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1967:federal governement began to pass legislation to Help Aborigines
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Today,Australia is a parliamentary démocracy with Elisabeth II as queen
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Great Britain saw that Australia was a good location to base its navy in the South Pacific Ocean.
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From 1833,until 1850s it was the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals
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1787:British ships called the First Fleet left England with convicts to estabish a prison colony .
