Istockphoto 486038099 612x612

Krish's Perspectives Timelines

By 5/6History22

  • Europeans Meet Aboriginals

    Europeans come to Australia and find 500,000 aboriginals who have lived more than 50,000 years.
  • Period: to

    Free Immigration

    Between 1793 and 1850 nearly 200,000 free settlers chose to migrate to Australia to start a new life. The majority were English agricultural workers or domestic servants, as well as Irish and Scottish migrants. These settlers formed the basis of early Australian society.

  • The Gold Rush

    Thousands of Chinese people came during the Gold Rush in Australia, in exactly 50 years Chinese had the third highest population in Australia after the British and Germans. When the gold was exhausted many took up market gardening or established businesses such as restaurants or laundries.

  • The Very First Women's Trade Union

    The Tailoresses’ Association of Melbourne, Australia’s first female trade union, was established at a meeting held in Trades Hall on 15 December 1882.

  • The start of women's rights

    On 18 December 1894 the South Australian Parliament passed the Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act. The legislation was the result of a decade-long struggle to include women in the electoral process. It not only granted women in the colony the right to vote but allowed them to stand for parliament.

  • The Constitution Became the Law of the land

    Indigenous Lost Land Rights And they lost their privilege of being citizens of australia
  • Period: to

    The Dictation Test

    Following Federation in 1901 Australia’s newly-formed Federal Parliament passed the Immigration Restriction Act, which placed certain restrictions on immigration and aimed to stop Chinese and South Sea Islanders from coming to Australia. These laws, known as the White Australia policy, were administered by a dictation test and informed Australian attitudes to immigration for the next 50 years.

  • Women's Voting Rights

    The vote for women in Federal elections came in 1902, making Australia the second nation in the world to achieve this, and shortly after, on its third attempt, the Women's Franchise Act was finally passed in NSW.

  • Women Are Allowed to Vote

  • The Country Women Association CWA

  • The Country Women Association Was Founded

  • Indigenous Fight Back for the right to vote

  • Australia's First Woman In the Parliament

    Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney were elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively, with Lyons endorsed by the United Australia Party and Tangney by the Australian Labor Party.

  • Australian The First Women in Parliament

    his changed in 1943 when Australia's first female representatives were elected and entered the Australian Parliament. Dame Enid Lyons was elected to the House of Representatives and Dorothy Tangney was elected to the Senate.

  • Populate Or Perish

    Australia Gets 2 Million immigrants to make up for lost citizen in World War 2

  • Black Women Are Allowed to Vote In Australia

    The 1965 Voting Rights Act Made Voting a Reality for Black Women.

  • Indigenous Gain The Right To Vote

  • Referendum For Indigenous Rights

  • Push For Constitutional Reform