History of Australia

The first state to be settled by Europeans in Australia was New South Wales. It was settled by convicts, marines and officers who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788.

One of the major impacts of the British was that they dispossessed the indigenous Australians of their land. The Aborigines were pushed back from their fertile lands along the coast, into the deserts, and in Tasmania they were exterminated entirely. With loss of land came loss of hunting grounds and fewer food sources.

Disease was a major problem. Aborigines had no resistance to British diseases, from measles to the 'flu. Thousands of Aborigines died when epidemics of these diseases swept through their camps. The British also introduced venereal diseases when they took the aboriginal women for their own use.

Loss of culture resulted from the British taking over. No longer were the Aborigines free to live as they had lived for centuries. The British ripped families apart, took children away from their families, and forced them to adapt to white culture. Stories of the aboriginal Dreamtime were lost, as was their heritage.

There were also massacres of aboriginal people, usually with very little provocation. Australian history sadly abounds with stories of landowners, settlers and squatters organising the slaughter of groups of Aborigines, often women, children and even older men.

John Forrest was an Australian explorer from Western Australia. He also became the first Premier of Western Australia.

In 1869, Forrest led the search for Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition which had gone missing while travelling across Australia from east to west. This search was unsuccessful, but it gave Forrest the chance to do what he wished, which was to explore the uncharted areas of Western Australia.

In 1870, Forrest surveyed the route which Edward Eyre had taken in 1840-41 from Adelaide to Albany, across the Great Australian Bight. As the main route from eastern Australia overland to the west, he realised it needed to be surveyed so a road could be built, and later a railway.

Delhi is a state which has got several districts. One of the district is New Delhi which is the central part of the Delhi state. India Gate, CP, Parliament, Supreme court and all major central govt offices are situated in New Delhi. Old Delhi is generally reffered to the old Walled city (Chandni chowk, chawri Bazar, Lala kila, Darya Ganj and nearby areas)

Other districts of Delhi are Delhi Cant, South Delhi, East Delhi (Trans-Yamuna), North Delhi, and West Delhi.

The British simply established settlements. These were originally comprised of convict labour under the guard of British military. As they required more land they simply evicted the indigenous population. These had been seriously weakened as a result of the ravages of diseases imported by the British, and they were no match for British weapons. They started of by making settlements that were built and serviced by the convicts that the prisons in Britain were overflowing with and maintaining a military presence. as a result of this more business people were attracted as well as the convict that were freed becoming part of the business of the community It grew from there.

Western Australia was the last of the states to have convicts. The last convict ship to Western Australia, the Hougoumont, left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868. Transportation of convicts to Australia ceased after this.

mostly those connected with a sea voyage of many months. As few were willing to take such risks for unknown benefits, the British Government decided to populate the place with convicted criminals who would have no choice in the matter. It would also then allow England to be populated by decent law-abiding Englishmen, free from the criminal classes.

As a result, few freed criminals opted for a return to England, by means of another perilous sea voyage, to an uncertain future (and criminal activity, merely to survive), so opted to stay in this strange new land.

This resulted in the slang name of 'Poms' that the Australians use for the British. The convicts would have stencilled on their uniforms P.O.H.M., meaning 'Prisoner Of His Majesty'. Upon sight of a prison ship entering the harbour, the cry would go up, "Here's another bladdy bunch of Poms comin' in!"

As near as can be determined from records, it is believed that a total of around 162,000 convicts came to Australia, from the time of the First Fleet in 1788 until the cessation of transportation with the final shipload of convicts to Western Australia in 1868.

Prior to the construction of the Australian Parliament House, the Federal Parliament met in Melbourne, capital city of Victoria, for the simple reason that it was the only city with a building large enough to house the parliament.

because Australia and its Alys had been waging war in Vietnam for many years. when they lost the war to the north Vietnamese. as situation developed where many people that cooperated with the south Vietnamese government were no longer safe in their own country so they sought asylum in Australia.

Answer #1 by Ginezumi That's the year in which Captain James Cook first saw the subsequent Queensland. Answer #2 by On the Wallaby The Town of 1770 is so named because it was the historic second landing site of Cook along the eastern coast of Australia. 1770 is also the year Cook came across the Great Barrier Reef, running aground on the reef near Cooktown, and having to spend almost two months repairing the ship. It was here that botanist Sir Joseph Banks made many notes regarding Australian flora and fauna, and it was here that Banks discovered that the Aborigines called a strange hopping animal "Ganguru", giving rise to the name "kangaroo".

Tasmanians are sometimes called "Taswegians".

Melbourne was founded primarily in response to the need for more pastureland and for the settlers to have a base from which to spread out. It was also founded because John Batman started a settlement "illegally".

As a native born Australian, Batman wished to open up new pastureland and promote the growth of the colonies. He applied for land in the Westernport Bay area of southern Australia, now Victoria, but was refused his request. In May 1835, he explored Port Phillip Bay, looking for suitable sites to settle. On 6 June 1835, he signed a 'treaty' with the Aborigines, which enabled him to have free access to almost 250,000 hectares of land. Two months later, Governor Bourke declared Batman's treaties invalid, and issued a proclamation warning off him and his supporters as trespassers on crown land.

Despite the attempts at government intervention, the foundling settlement of Melbourne remained, and flourished. The new township was surveyed and named as Melbourne on 3 March 1837, in honour of the British Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne.

Apart from the people that were banished to Australia by the British for crimes as small as stealing a loaf of bread to feed their family, there are a few good reasons that people immigrated to Australia from the UK. Australia experienced massive amounts of mining success, and this began in the 1700's with the Gold Rush which saw hundreds of thousands of migrants try their hand at our "Lucky Country". In the early to mid 1900's England was experiencing recession, war and all the stresses that these things bring to a home/country. Australia meanwhile was experiencing a financial BOOM and offered many thousands of jobs to people in the UK as there weren't enough people to fill all the jobs! Such as my nanna who is 95 this year - she and pop moved here 60 years ago and bought their 3 kids along for the 6 week boat journey so that pop could start his job as an engineer in Canberra to extend the dam wall. When the kids got off the boat (the eldest boys were 10 at the time), and they passed a butchers in Perth that had meat and sausages strung up in the window for all to see, they keeled over. The boys had NEVER seen meat in a shop before - that's how long the rations on food had been in place in england. Chocolate? Once a month children would get a chocolate ration. And here sat Australia - full of expats for various reasons, all telling their family and friends how beautiful it was, how big a plot of land with a house you could buy, how plentiful the jobs and hence money was. THAT IS A FAR MORE ACCURATE ANSWER. Obviously there are many more reasons, but that covers the majority.

Neither: it is a city. Canberra lies in the Australian Capital Territory, and is the capital city of Australia.

Technically the aboriginal people were the first to inhabit the area and you can still see there handprints on wave rock today. It was not until the 1860's did the first white people came which were the sandalwood cutters.

The federation of Australia in 1901 was significant because of the changes it led to in both positive and negative ways to Australia.

Border taxes were part of the Australian life before federation. This meant that people wanting to sell or trade goods had to pay a tax if they wanted to go from one state to another. This was set up so the people in one state didn't have to compete with different states' cheaper prices, making them pay taxes to sell in that state meaning that people would be more likely to buy local goods because they would be cheaper and more affordable. After federation a free trade agreement was formed meaning it didn't cost money to trade or sell goods in another state.

Before federation all of Australia was divided into colonies, every colony defended and looked after themselves making laws and regulations for only their people. The colonial governments distrusted each other and were not in favour of federation until it became apparent to them that it was essential for the future welfare of Australia. Once Australia was federated the colonies were combined and were led by the parliament system we have today.

Prior to federation the natives of New Guinea the kanakas were kidnapped and taken to Australia by the Queensland colonies to work in the Queensland sugar cane fields, the kanakas were used for slave labour so Australian shop and factory owners didn't have to pay for workers. The kanakas worked in horrible and dangerous condition until federation. After federation occurred the kanakas were no longer taken from New Guinea.

Defence was one of the major reasons for the federation of Australia, Separate colonies restricted Australia's defence prior to federation and as warfare was becoming more common to Australia people became aware that our defence needed to be strengthened, federation would make Australia's defence stronger because the separate colonies would work together to protect Australia.

Unity was one of the reasons that people chose to federate to occur in Australia. The colonial governments became more united and a sense of nationalism spread through Australia. This sense of nationalism was why many people chose to make Australia united as a federated country.

Before Federation occurred all of the colonies that resided in the continent were very separate and competitive with each other, especially Victoria and New South Wales. Although that hasn't changed on the sporting field it is a much nicer relationship than it was.

Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is situated on Australia's south-east coast, looking east over the Pacific Ocean. The city is built around Port Jackson, which includes Sydney Harbour and the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge.

In 1901, there were 3,773,801 people which includes 1,977,928 males and 1,795,873 females counted in Australia.

Source: My knowledge of history, i learnt at school

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Because Australia trying to be a part of Asia but couldn't , to make it getting easier Australia trying to mix people by allowing Asians to come over here. then there will be more Asian here and it would be easier to attend any Asian activities such Asian game, AFC (which already attended), ASEAN and etc.

The plan for Canberra was chosen though a contest.

In April 1911, the Australian Government held an international competition to produce a design for its new capital city. Walter Burley Griffin produced a design with impressive renderings of the plan produced by his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin. On 23 May 1912 Griffin's design was selected as the winner from among 137 entries, whereupon he and his wife moved to Australia, where Griffin was appointed as the Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction.