History of Australia

Coniston massacre was one of the last organized killing of Aborigine Australians in 1928. It was carried out to seek revenge for the killing of a dingo hunter Fredrick Brooks. In the killing spree 31 native Australians were killed. Subsequent trial and injustice led to a broader inquiry and led to seizure of such acts in Australia.

In Ned Kelly's time, men who worked on the land did not have time for "hobbies". They spent their time working on their farms and cattlestations or sheep stations, ploughing, harvesting, mustering and completing any of the other myriad jobs around the property.

Why do children leave their parents' home? Because they want to make their own decisions,become independent,feel they're mature enough to cope on their own etc. This sounds very similar.However,the Queen of the UK is still the Queen of Australia.Therefore,don't forget that Australia has not cut all the ties with the UK and has only considered but not decided to become a Republic.

Yes He was And in so doing he has also accepted that the Australian nation today is part of its history and should accept responsibility for anything any elected government does in this country.

Gregory Blaxland was one of the first three Europeans to discover a route across the Blue Mountains. This was significant because, after the colony of Sydney/New South Wales had been virtually imprisoned by the mountains for twenty five years, graziers and farmers were now able to expand out into new grasslands and agricultural lands. It marked a new season of prosperity for Australia.

Yes. As of November 2011, former Australian Prime Minister, Robert 'Bob' Hawke, is still alive.

Australia is a multicultural society, so therefore we have surnames from many different countries.

depends......were the Asian men and women having sex? coz dam you never know they could have twins or triplets or even more and 1850's dam no protection so double dose with da sperm.

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Italian immigrants went to Austalia in the 1950s. There is a one hour screening of 10 short films telling the experience of Italian immigrants who went to Australia in the 50s. The project is called " The Voice of People".

They aren't necessary but they are thought to be beneficial: the lower house is responsive more directly and more immediately to the public and its whims; the upper house is more deliberate and slower to make decisions and thus less rash. Each house balances the other out.

The Germans brought their religion (Christianity, specifically the Lutheran denomination) and their culture to South Australia from the 1830s. They were hard workers who tilled the land tirelessly, working the productive Barossa Valley and also, later, numerous other areas around Australia. They introduced the most productive wine grapes into Australia, and also a variety of foods enjoyed by Australians today.

One of Australia's greatest children's writers, Colin Thiele, was of direct German stock, and influenced the direction of children's literature for many years.

It is unfortunate that, during each of the World Wars, many German-speaking Australians were rounded up and interned in camps, in the belief that they were spies for their homeland. Many were forced to Anglicise their names.

Another lesser-known influence of the Germans in Australia was their work as missionaries to the Aborigines. Whilst the German Lutherans accept responsibility for some of the atrocities perpetrated on the Aboriginal people in the nineteenth century, in the name of "civilising" them, there is a huge chunk of Australian Aboriginal history in which the indigenous people benefitted from the German Lutheran influence.

Captain Moonlite was hanged on 20 January 1880 at Darlinghurst Court.

The influx of Vietnamese people had a large effect on Australia's appreciation for Asian foods and flavours because the ingredients became available. The variety's of bread available increased greatly as a result of the french bread making influence that came with them. Vietnamese people in Australia used our educating system to its full extent to bring into Australia many highly skilled and knowledgeable professionals and tradesmen. Add to this access to diverse culture tradition and religion and the effect was enriching to Australia.

Approximately 30 people are still missing.

The exploration of Burke and Wills was fraught with problems.

Burke and Wills led Australia's best-equipped and most expensive exploration expedition. With such preparation behind them, they should not have died - but Burke was impatient, and it was this very human quality that essentially resulted in their premature deaths.

Robert O'Hara Burke, with William Wills later appointed second-in-command, led the expedition to try to cross Australia from south to north and back again. The exploration party was very well equipped, and subsequently very large. Because of its size, the exploration party was split at Menindee so that Burke could push ahead to the Gulf of Carpentaria with a smaller party. Splitting the part was a fatal mistake. The smaller group went on ahead to establish the depot at Cooper Creek which would serve to offer the necessary provisions for when the men returned from the Gulf. After several unsuccessful forays into the northern dry country from Cooper Creek, Burke decided to push on ahead to the Gulf in December 1860, regardless of the risks - and the intense summer heat. He took with him Wills, Charles Gray and John King.

The expedition to the Gulf took longer than Burke anticipated: upon his return to Cooper Creek, he found that the relief party had left just seven hours earlier, less than the amount of time it had taken to bury Gray, who had died on the return journey. Gray died from starvation, and from being abused and badly beaten by Burke when he was found stealing food.

Through poor judgement, lack of observation and a series of miscommunications, Burke and Wills never met up with the relief party. They perished on the banks of Cooper Creek. Burke died on or around 30 June 1861. King alone survived to lead the rescue party to the remains of Burke and Wills, and the failure of one of the most elaborately planned expeditions in Australia's history.

The exact cause of Burke and Wills's death was not starvation or malnutrition, but inadvertent poisoning. The men knew that the Aborigines gathered nardoo which they had used to sustain Burke and Wills, until they were frightened off by Burke's defensiveness against the Aborigines. So, whilst awaiting the rescue that never came, Burke and Wills made their way to where they knew Aborigines collected Nardoo. Nardoo was an important bush food for Aborigines, who knew how to prepare its seedpods (or, strictly speaking, sporocaps) to make flour. The sporocarps contain poisons that must first be removed for them to be eaten safely. Studies of the explorers' journals indicate that they probably died of nardoo poisoning, after failing to follow precautions from the Aborigines of how to prepare it safely.

John Howard was an outstanding Prime Minister under whose leadership the Australian economy grew to the point that it had a significant surplus. He brought the country out of the debt that the previous government had incurred. The surplus was, unfortunately, spent by the ensuing government.John Howard was a strong man who brought in the successful Australian gun control laws, following a massacre by a lone gunman at Port Arthur in Tasmania.

The first Europeans to arrive in Australia for permanent settlement were the convicts who were transported from England to Australia. They were fully cared for and were not left to fend for themselves. They were sheltered and fed, but made to work hard. If they shirked their duties, they could be flogged or have their rations reduced. The marines and officers who watched over the convicts had enough rations and livestock to keep going until farms could be established.

Hunting was carried out to a small degree. Europeans did not initially develop a taste for native Australian wildlife, and the colony almost starved until it had its first successful barley crop, and the 3rd Fleet arrived.

The first attempt to settle Victoria occurred in 1803, when Lieutenant David Collins established a convict colony near present-day Sorrento. Lack of fresh water and unsuitable soil for agriculture caused Collins to abandon the southern coast settlement and move across Bass Strait to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

The next, more successful attempt to establish a permanent settlement in Victoria was in 1836, when John Batman began the town of Melbourne, and the Henty brothers took up land near Portland.

On 28 April, 1965, Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, announced that Australian troops would be sent to support the United States forces in the Vietnam war. The first Australian troops arrived in Vietnam in May 1965.

Australia has gained complete independence from Britain. This was a long process, beginning with Federation, when the six states came together as one federated nation, under an Australian Prime Minister.

As a British Colony and later a British Dominion Australia gradually gained more and more autonomy. It did not achieve full independent Sovereignty until 3 March 1986, when the Australia Acts came into effect, terminating all British jurisdiction over Australia.

Kevin Rudd represents the Australian Labor Party.

Mostly trees. There was no settlement and the Aborigines initially shunned the Europeans. There was just dense bushland, heat and humidity unlike anything the English colonists had ever experienced.