Australia has an interesting history with many unique aspects.
To begin with, the country was founded by British convicts, along with the officers sent to supervise the establishment of a new colony. The states of New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland were all established by convicts, while the convict-founded Victoria colony initially failed. Western Australia was not founded by convicts, but the request was made for convicts to help boost the labour force and population 15 years after it was settled: only South Australia has no direct convict history. Colonisation ultimately led to the displacement of the indigenous people, and a great many atrocities perpetrated upon the Aborigines.
Many brave men explored the interior of Australia, enduring harsh and unfamiliar terrain in order to expand the possibilities for settlement. In many cases they were assisted by Aborigines, but in some cases they endured hostile attacks.
The physical, economic and cultural landscape of Australia was forever altered with the goldrushes which began in the 1850s. The goldrushes gave Australia the economic and political confidence to aim for Federation, in which the individual colonies joined as a single nation. Federation marked the beginning of Australia's long journey to achieve complete independence from Britain.
The rugby Union is Australia's most famous sport.
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It would be difficult to pick between the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru/Ayers Rock.
See New Guinea Campaign, WW2.
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Mainly coal.
The cast of Australias Most Wanted - 1999 includes: Robert Rabiah as Suspect
Sydney
The Wallabies.
New Zealand and Britain
Australias history can only be dated back to 1606 as the first recorded European landed on the continent naming it New Holland. Before this date, Australia did not exist. The Aborigines never recorded history so they being in the continent really accounted to nothing. They did not build anything, they did not farm, or create any scientific technologies. The Aborigines were nomadic meaning they did not own the land they merely lived off it. The Aborigines didn't even have a name for the continent. So since it is 2011, Australias history dates back 405 years.
Australia has a total land area of approximately 7.7 million square kilometers, making it the sixth-largest country in the world by total area.