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The Dutch were the first to come to Australia. They only made one settlement before the Aborigines attacked them. The DDutch immediately stopped exploration.
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Captain James Cook sailed around Australia. Captain Cook named the land New South Wales. He claimed the land for Britain.
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British ships called the First Fleet left England with prisioners to establlish the penal colony
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Britsh prisoners made it over on the First Fleet and settled in Australia.
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New South Wales was officially a penal colony due to to the American Revolution because Georgia was Britain's penal colony. The only people to live in that land were prisoners, Marines as guards, and the Marines' families.
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The prisoners with the harshest sentences or who are second time offenders went here.
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Melbourne became the capital of the Commomnwealth of Australia until 1927
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The Aborigine farmers protedted in hope of getting ownership of original Aborigine land back and for equal wages.
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Britain no longer controlled Australia
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55% of Australians vote not to become independent of Britain,
