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Lieutenant James Cook claims the East coast for Australia
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First Settlement which is today Sydney
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Major areas of Australia mapped
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A period of exploration, frontier war, and new settlements being built
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The Voyages of George Bass and Matthew Flinders
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Port Phillip and Derwent River Establishment of Settlements
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Settlements of Port Essington and Melville Island
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Moreton Bay Convict Colony establishment and Closing
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Van Diemen's Land Became a Colony
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Exploration of Swan River
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First South Australia Act
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Opium Wars
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The Great Australian Gold Rush
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Black Thursday Bushfires
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Gold Rushes in New South Wales and Victoria
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Victoria became a separate colony
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The Eureka Rebellion
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Van Deimens Land's name was changed to Tasmania
In 1865, Van Deimens Land's name was changed to Tasmania and it had its own governor. It was concerned that its small size and population would mean it was dominated by the larger states. -
20 Europeans attacked the Chinese
On 8 June 1857, about 20 Europeans attacked the Chinese: beating them up, stealing their belongings and gold, burning their tents, and throwing them off their claims. The men were arrested and charged with offences against the Chinese. They were found guilty and sentenced to hard labour. -
QLD was separated from NSW
Queensland was separated from New South Wales in 1859. It brought in Pacific Islanders to work on its sugar cane plantations, while all other states opposed non-European migration. -
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The 'heyday' of the Bushrangers
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QLD found new source of cheap labour
In the 1860s the Queensland colonial government found a new source of cheap labour in the islands of the South Pacific. At first, young men (and sometimes boys as young as nine) were brought from the New Hebrides and Fiji, and later from other islands in the South Pacific. Some may have been encouraged to come by promises of guns or money, but others were coerced or tricked. Irrespective of where they came from, they were given the derogatory name ‘kanakas’. -
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Conditions Improved for Australian Workers
In the period from 1860 to 1890, conditions improved for many Australian workers. Some of the factors involved in this increased prosperity were: - increased wealth as a consequence of the gold rushes - investment of this wealth in property and industries - greater demand for goods and food because of the population increase - more efficient farming methods, including the use of mechanical equipment. -
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Civil war between the Armed Unions against Government Forces
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Australia fights in the Boer War
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Victorian Act that Children cannot be in the hands of the Minister
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Federation of Australia is the beginning of the Australian nation
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Australia fights in WW1
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Aboriginal people gained right to vote in all state and federal elections
Through a series of changes in various states, Indigenous Australians gained or regained the right to vote, until by 1965 they had voting rights in all state and federal elections. -
Aboriginal people were allowed to be counted in the census
The two sections of the Constitution that restricted federal power to legislate for Aboriginal Australians and prevented them from being counted in the census were removed by a referendum held in 1967.