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History of Australia

By Mahad

  • European Exploration British

    European Exploration British
    1770:Captain James sail around Australia.Cook named the area The New South Wales ,ignored the Aborigines living there and claimed the land for England

  • European Exploration Dutch

    European Exploration Dutch
    First Europeans to sail to Australia were the Dutch(Netherlands) in 1606 but they didn't settle there

  • New South Wales

    New South Wales
    1788 to 1832: New South Wales was officialy a prison colony consisting mainly of convicts.

  • Commonwealth of Australia

    Commonwealth of Australia
    Nonprisoners colonization continued ... In 1901 the first Commonwealth of Australia was established.

  • White Australia

    White Australia
    Originally, Australia promoted a policy called "White Australia "

  • Aborigines

    Aborigines
    1967:federal governement began to pass legislation to Help Aborigines

  • AUSTRALIA Today

    AUSTRALIA Today
    Today,Australia is a parliamentary démocracy with Elisabeth II as queen

  • The perfect colony

    The perfect colony
    Great Britain saw that Australia was a good location to base its navy in the South Pacific Ocean.

  • Port Arthur Tasmania

    Port Arthur Tasmania
    From 1833,until 1850s it was the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals

  • The First Fleet

    The First Fleet
    1787:British ships called the First Fleet left England with convicts to estabish a prison colony .