Yes, Joseph Cook was the 6th prime minister of Australia.
Joseph Cook
Joseph Cook was the sixth prime minister of Australia. However, he was not the son of James Cook. He was the son of an obscure coal miner who was klled prematurely in a mining accident. .
James Cook proved that New Zealand was not part of Australia. Abel Tasman had originally believed they were part of the same continent.
Sir Joseph Banks was a botanist who travelled with James Cook ship on his journey to New South Wales, arriving with Cook on 19 April 1770.
Australia's sixth Prime Minister, Joseph Cook, held office for just 15 months. His term lasted from 14 June 1913 to 19 September 1914.
The 6th Prime Minister of Australia was born on December 7, 1860 in Silverdale, England.
James Cook (not yet a Captain) had a very favourable response to Australia, unlike his predecessor William Dampier, in 1688. Cook believed that the east coast of Australia was suitable for colonisation, and he and Sir Joseph Banks recommended the region of Botany Bay as suitable for a convict settlement.
joseph cook was in the labour party
Joseph Louis Cook died in 1814.
Following Captain Cook's voyage to the South Pacific in 1770, the previously uncharted continent of New Holland proved to be suitable. Cook had claimed the eastern half of the continent for England, naming it "New South Wales", and determined that a small bay in the south which he named "Botany Bay" would present the ideal conditions for a penal colony.Sir Joseph Banks, one of three botanists aboard James Cook's The Endeavour which charted the eastern coast of Australia in 1770, was a passionate advocate of British settlement and colonisation of the Australian continent. Cook claimed the eastern coast of Australia ("New South Wales") for Britain in 1770. It was largely upon his and Banks's recommendation that Australia ultimately was colonised, and so Cook is often (wrongly) credited with "discovering" Australia.
In August 1914, Joseph Cook of the Liberals. In September 1939, Robert Menzies of the United Australia Party.