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The dutch sailed to Australia
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Captain James Cook sailed around Australia and named the area New South Wales
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The First Fleet ships left England with convicts to establish a prison colony
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New South Wales was now a prison colony consisting of convicts, marines, and the marines' families
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Port Arthur was for the hardest convicted British and Irish criminals
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The British stopped transporting prisoners to Australia
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The Commonwealth of Australia was established and Melbourne was the capital until Canberra was completed in 1927
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federal government began to pass legislation to help the Aborigines
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All ties with the British Empire were severed
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55% of voters rejected the idea of becoming an independent republic