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Captain James Cook sailed around Australia.
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British ships ccalled the ''First Fleet'' left England with convicts to establish a prison colony.
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British prisoners settled in Australia.
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New South Wales was offically a penal colony consisting mainly of convicts, guards, and mariens' families.
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The remnants of the tribes in the settled areas were moved onto Reserves.
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Destonation for hardest of the convicted British and Irish crimminals, those secondary offenders having re-offened after their arrival in Australia.
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Commonwealth of Australia was then established on January 1,1901.
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Federal government began to pass legislation to help the Aboriginals.
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Austalian Act- all legal ties up with the British Empire were served.
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Fifty- five percent of the voters rejected the idea of becoming an independent republic.
