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Dutch (Netherland) people explored Austarila but didnt colonized or setle because they were attacked by the aborigines of Australia which abanded further exploration
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Captain James Cook sailed around Australia and named the area New South Wales and ignored the Aborigines living there and claimed land for England.
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British ships left to establish a prison colony ( penal colony)
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British prisoners settled in Austarila. The british giovernment did this because the American Revolution forced the british to stop sending prisoners to Georgia so they thought Ausatraila would be a good place to make it become a penal colony because there was no chance of escape, very few indegonous people and there were no colonies around it.
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Austraila was an offical penal colony.
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The last year Australia was a penal colony.
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This was the destination for hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals, those who were secondary offenders
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Government officials created boundries for the colonies that are still in place today.
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The commonwealth of Austraila was esablished. Melbourne served as the national capital unitl Canberra was completed in1927
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All legal ties with the British Empire were severed.
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55% of voters rejected the idea of becoming an independent republic.
