AUSTRALIA

Position in the world Australia is here

Historical summary The ancestors of Indigenous Australians are believed to have arrived in Australia 40,000 years ago more or less during an ice age when Australia was connected to Asia by a land bridge. They hunted with wooden spears and sometimes with stone or bone blades, they also used nets for fishing. During the 17th and the 18th century, European explorers reached Australia. In 1770 Captain Cook claimed eastern Australia for Britain, he called it New South Wales. Great Britain founded the colony in Australia not only to deport undesirable members but also they hoped to found a naval base in the Pacific and hoped Australia would be a source of timber and flax. The undesirable members were convicts and they worked on government land for provisions but those who behaved well were free. There were many battles between Europeans and Indigenous Australians because European convicts wanted to dominate them. The first governor of Australia was Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, then came John Hunter and then Philip King. In March 1804 there was a rebellion at Castle Hill, Australia, against the Irish. The rebellion quickly collapsed and the ringleaders were hanged.

Many colonies were founded in Australia by Europeans. William Bligh was made governor in 1806. The forbaded rum as currency and in 1808 the rum rebellion started. Bligh was taken prisioner and he had to leave Australia, to which he returned afterwards. Many colonies were founded in Australia by Europeans. Victoria was made a separated state from New South Wales in 1851, and Queensland became independent in 1859. In 1851 there was a gold rush in Victoria and in 1859 the Eureka Rebellion started. Sidney University was founded in 1850, Melbourne University in 1853 and Adelaide University in 1874. The first railway was built in the early 1850s but it was very short, and in 1891 there was over 10,000 miles of railway. The first telephone call in Australia was made in Melbourne in 1878. There was a gold rush in 1892 and as a result the population in Australia boomed. Melbourne Sidney’s University

The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1 January 1901. The first commercial flight in Australia was in 1921. In the First World War, Australian soldiers were directed to Egypt and then to Gallipoli, and in the Second World War they went to Africa and then after the fall of Singapore, many Australians were captured. Today the population of Australia is 22 million people and the unemployment stood at 5’2% last year. Australian railway

How and why it is part of the British Empire England wanted Australia as a colony because they wanted the convicts to live there. Convicts copied English people when it came to politics because they wanted to be like them but they also wanted to keep their traditions. Little by little they achieved their goal and when they did, they considered themselves free. The Australian flag has the English flag in it because it symbolizes it’s part of England.

How it changed the country English convicts worked in the government and indigenous didn’t. Population grew a lot and now it’s of about 22 million people. The rum was replaced by the Australian dollar which is represented by the same symbol as the pound, £. They stopped being hunters and gatherers. It’s culture has changed because of the different cultures that have influenced it, things have changed in business, art, cooking, humor and sport.

Current relationship and symbols that represent the British reign Australia is independent but the Head of State is the Queen of England. They both speak the same language. Australia has the English flag in its own flag. Australia is part of the Commonwealth.