History of Australia

Sir Henry Parkes was very much in favour of federation, and is considered to be the Father of Australian Federation.

Parkes is perhaps best remembered for his famous Tenterfield Oration, delivered on 24 October 1889, at the Tenterfield School of Arts. In this speech, he advocated the Federation of the six Australian colonies.

Liverpool in England is the nearest English city to Dublin, Ireland's capital. The journey by sea to Liverpool can be done in just a few hours now, and even with older ships, it was not a long journey. So it was a natural place for Irish people leaving Ireland and heading to England to go to. Many Irish stayed there and there has always been a strong Irish presence in Liverpool.

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we have ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day because we celebrate the brave young people that fought in the war for our country. The are very brave and should be remembered and talked about for years to come.

John Simpson Kirkpatrick joined the Australian Army Medical Corps as a stretcher bearer under the name of "Jack Simpson" immediately at the outbreak of World War I. Simpson then landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.

Burke and Wills did not actually discover any significant new land. Their claim to fame was crossing the continent from south to north on foot. However, much of the land they explored had already been traversed some decades earlier by explorers Ludwig Leichhardt and Major Thomas Mitchell.

There are a variety of common animals in Australia. Some of these include owls, koalas, dingos, as well as red kangaroos.

Most certainly. The convicts of the First Fleet were very quickly set to work clearing trees, tilling the soil and getting the first crops started. The convicts were very hard to motivate, being reluctant to work in the Australian heat and humidity, and with tools that constantly broke, but they were expected to work hard.

They were also set construction projects, as there were no roads, bridges or buildings. Some convicts were assigned as servants or tradespeople to the free settlers who also came.

Remembrance Day in Australia is on November 11 every year. It is when, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the nation stops for a minute's silence, to remember those who sacrificed their lives in war.

Australians also observe ANZAC Day which has become the main day when those who served in all wars involving Australia are remembered.

If you are asking how many prisoners passed through the gaol its about 50,000

Australian New Zealand Association Corps fought in WW1 because they were part of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Since Britain was at war with the Turks, the Australians and New Zealanders felt the duty to honor their obligation to the Empire. As for the Turks specifically, opposed to say the Austro-Hungarians, Bulgarians, or Germans, that was decided by British Command.

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they liked to get married on windy days to prevent bad luck.

Married life was different to that of today. In 1500if your wife was a nagger the husband would be able to swap wife's(wife swap). Also they could beat you in front of your village. This is different today because you can not swap wife's with other people and today we cannot beat up or lovers.

It means recgonising and acknowledging the sacrifice and heroism shown by ANZAC soldiers all those years ago.

Australia Day is commemorated on 26th January, and is the anniversary of the arrival of Governor Phillip and the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, to found a penal colony in New South Wales, as Australia was then known. It is celebrated in all states of Australia with a national holiday. If the 26th is a Saturday, the holiday is the preceding Friday, while if it is a Sunday, the public holiday is the following nearest Monday. There are public events in every major city of Australia. The most spectacular of these is probably the ferry race held on Sydney Harbour. There are reenactments of the landing of the First Fleet.

Many local councils hold special events on the day ranging from picnics celebrating all things Australian to citizenship ceremonies for those taking up Australian citizenship.

The great majority of people, however, simply enjoy having a long weekend, and celebrate with a barbeque in the backyard, or down at the beach if they live near the coast.

Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth were the ones who virtually saved the early colony in New South Wales by finding a way across the Blue Mountains. They traversed previously unknown country, and so met with numerous problems due to the unfamiliarity of the countryside and the terrain.

The major problem that the three explorers had was continually confronting dead ends. When they followed river gullies, they ended up against impassable cliff faces. When they followed the mountain tops, they often found themselves on the edge of sheer cliffs too steep to take down their horses.

Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth were also going through countryside where there were no roads or tracks. They travelled through thick, impenetrable bushland which had to be hacked away with machetes.

Mosquitoes were a constant problem. Another fear was aboriginal attack: little was really known about the Aborigines, and it was not really understood that they were just as keen to avoid Europeans as Europeans were keen to avoid them.

Australia has traditionally been a good ally with the United States. There was no reason why they shouldn't assist us. The Australian people remember our sacrifice during the WWII Battle of the Coral Sea (at Australia's doorstep). As well as the numerous land battles that took place in the surrounding islands north and north east of their country, in which the Australians fought by our side. Vietnam is a lot closer to Australia, than it is to the US, the Australians knew that if the Americans were going to travel that far to combat communism, then it must be important, and when a friend needs a helping hand, the Australians have always helped a friend in need. Australians should not have been involved in the Vietnam war because it was a war of aggression. We and the USA had no business bolstering an unpopular and corrupt government in order to interfere with the democratic process be it to our taste or not. It was a war that could not be won and as it turned out was lost many people were killed as a result of the war and the effects are still felt by the Vietnamese as a result of chemical bombing. But most all because nothing was gained for any one but those that produced the weapons and the politics surrounding the war. One should not aid a bully because the bully helped protect you once.

Henry Parks was born at Stonleigh Warwickshire,England in 1815.

He emigrated to New South Wales in 1838 & became Premier in 1872

refer a short history of Australia by Manning Clark

Beginning of the gold rush, 1851:

Australia - 437,655

Victoria - 77,345

End of the first gold rush, 1861:

Australia - 1,151,497

Victoria - 538,628

Estimated immigration due to gold rush: 461,283

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Captain James Cook discovered Kiritimati, or Christmas Island, on Christmas Eve 1777. It is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati. It is quite different to the territory of Christmas Island, off Australia's northwestern coast.

The ANZACs were supposed to land on Cape Tepe but ended up landing on what was later known as ANZAC Cove, two kilometres North of the intended landing place.

He was a seaman and trader chartered to explore to the east by the Dutch East India Company.

Explorer of Australia Robert O'Hara Burke was not married. There are suggestions that he volunteered to lead the expedition to the north because he had proposed to a young acress named Julia Matthews. She responded that she would consider marriage if Burke was the triumphant winner of the race to the north and back.