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AUSTRALIA<br />
Australia across history<br />
How a rich<br />
Indigenous past<br />
and centuries<br />
of colonial rule<br />
shaped one the<br />
world’s most<br />
diverse countries<br />
ABORIGINAL<br />
ARRIVAL<br />
The first Aboriginal<br />
peoples arrive in<br />
Australia by boat from<br />
South East Asia, during<br />
the time of the last<br />
great Ice Age. These<br />
Indigenous Australians<br />
live undiscovered until the<br />
17th century.<br />
EUROPEAN<br />
LANDING<br />
The first known<br />
landing in Australia<br />
is by Dutch explorer<br />
Willem Janszoon. He<br />
is one of many Dutch<br />
travellers to explore<br />
the continent in the<br />
17th century, and it is<br />
dubbed New Holland.<br />
C. 45-50,000 BCE<br />
1606<br />
1914<br />
WORLD WAR I<br />
Despite there being just<br />
4.9 MILLION<br />
420,000<br />
60,000 DIE<br />
volunteer<br />
to fight.<br />
people in<br />
Australia,<br />
including 8,141 men in eight months of fighting at<br />
Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.<br />
Anzac day, an annual holiday, is held on 25 April<br />
to mark the first landings at Gallipoli.<br />
1901<br />
AUSTRALIABECOMESANATION<br />
Afteryearsofcallsforaunionbetweenthesixmainland<br />
colonies, the Commonwealth of Australia comes into<br />
being under one constitution and is controlled by a new<br />
federal government.<br />
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PENAL TRANSPORTATION<br />
ENDS<br />
In the midst<br />
of strong<br />
opposition<br />
from free,<br />
middle-class<br />
settlers, penal<br />
transportation<br />
ends. More<br />
than 150,000<br />
convicts had<br />
been sent to<br />
territories across<br />
Australia.<br />
THE GREAT<br />
DEPRESSION<br />
Australia is badly hit by the<br />
worldwide economic<br />
downturn, and finds<br />
comfort in its love<br />
of sport. On 6<br />
January, 21-yearold<br />
cricketer Don<br />
Bradman hits<br />
a world record<br />
452 not out in<br />
a Sheffield Shield<br />
game in Sydney.<br />
The<br />
Japanese attacks<br />
on 19 February<br />
destroyed 30 aircraft,<br />
sunk 11 vessels and<br />
damaged 25 ships<br />
in Darwin.<br />
THE BATTLE OF DARWIN<br />
Australia again offers huge support to the<br />
<strong>All</strong>ies during World War II. The Bombing<br />
of Darwin, by 242 Japanese aircraft, is the<br />
largest attack ever mounted by a foreign<br />
power in Australia.<br />
IMMIGRATION BOOM<br />
After the war, hundreds of<br />
thousands of migrants from<br />
Europe and the Middle East arrive<br />
in Australia. Many find jobs in the<br />
booming manufacturing industry.<br />
1930<br />
1942<br />
1950S<br />
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