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Period: 60,000 BCE to
Pre colonisation
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43,000 BCE
explorers
Then the first European explorer, Dutchman, Willem Janszoon landed in Queensland 1606 to map Australia. About 80 years later explorer William Dampier explored Perth and other parts of Western Australia. But the Europeans weren’t the only ones who influenced the Indigenous Australians because Indonesian, Papuan and Maccasan traders often came down to North Australia to swap things like tools, didgeridoos and food. -
35,000 BCE
geography
When the indigenous people got to Australia the ice age started to begin and it got colder. At this time Australia is connected to New Guinea. Then sea levels rise and Australia becomes an island. -
34,567 BCE
personal connection
No one in our class has any known Aboriginal heritage, but a while ago this might have been different. -
14,000 BCE
tools
Aboriginal tools included: hut and food mounds, spears that travel 100 metres, canoes, dams and fish traps, roasted moths, adzes which are knives, fish guts used as mozzie repellent, honey and water were soft drinks and tubous eel traps made in Parramatta. Thus the NRL team name the Parramatta eels. -
12,456 BCE
Animals
Over 20,000 years ago there were massive animals like a 2 metre emu and a python a metre in diameter. Where these animals went, I have no idea. -
12,349 BCE
our origins
There are debates about when the first humans came. Most people say we came 190,000 years ago from central Africa and migrated North to the Middle East 120,000 years ago and then finally reached Australia via Papa New Guinea 50,000 years ago. Although some people believe the Indigenous Australians were here during the dreamtime. -
3456 BCE
food
The indigenous people used grinding stones to make bread as well as dilly bags to gather berries and grubs. To kill larger animals like kangaroos and birds the aboriginals used spears and boomerangs. They also farmed edible bush tomatoes native pears and cucumbers and ate those using shells as utensils. To catch aquatic animals like fish and eels the aboriginals made dams and ‘water lassos’ that trapped the fish into easy access areas. -
2005 BCE
toys
The aboriginal children were creative and made their very own toys and games like:
- Dolls made out of clay and wood were covered in feathers
- Balls made of dried grass and wrapped up with reeds
- Torres Strait Islander children made toy canoes out of bark
- Vines used for skipping ropes
- Spinning tops made from wood and sap
- Bark paper planes
- Marbles, pebbles
- Tiggy -
1234 BCE
Games
The aboriginals had their own pastimes including Marngrook later called footy where they used a ball made of possum fur. They also had their own version of lawn bowls using granite rocks that the adults played. -
Convicts and Settlers
The convicts were people couldn’t fit into English jails, they were then sent to Australia by boat. Settlers were people who wanted to come to Australia to find a new life. Convicts and settlers built the first roads and city’s of Australia. In 1840 convicts were stopped coming to Australia and sent to Tasmania instead. -
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Colonisation
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Bass and Flinders
George Bass and Mathew Flinders were explores from England. There famous for naming Australia and discovering Tasmania (back then called Van Diemen’s Land). They also explored the body of water now called Bass Strait. -
Wool Industry
In 1813 sheep’s wool was sent to England from Sydney for the very first time. Now 80% of wool come from Australia. -
Brisbane Built
Brisbane was built in 1824. -
Colonial Arts and Culture
The famous play called the bush ranger written by Dawn Bern was made 1829. Convicts danced in public houses (pubs) for entertainment. -
Melbourne Built
Melbourne city was built in 1835. -
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Gold Rush
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Gold Discovered in Victoria
With the discovery of gold in 1851 many people came from all over the world to Victoria and they came by choice, unlike the convicts who had come before because they each did something bad or stupid. Many came from China, now one of the most thriving cities in the world! The people also came from England, Ireland, Scotland, New South Wales, America, and Germany. These countries also came back with the most gold! -
Chinese Migration
From 1840 many Chinese migrants moved to Australia to do the hard work that convicts used to do. Once gold was discovered close to 70,000 moved to the gold fields. By 1880 in New South Wales there were about 10,000 Chinese men and only 100 Chinese women. -
AFL Invented
AFL was invented by Tom Wills. He grew up with Aboriginal Australians, spoke their language and played with them. One day he saw people playing a game called Mangrook and he thought "maybe I can introduce Mangrook to white people." Soon footy was played and teams were made. The first teams were: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, and Geelong. Those were just some of the teams and there are many more! -
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Federation & Depression
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George Allen
George Allen was a public servant and was one of the inaugural heads of department in Australian Public service at Australia's federation. -
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly was the first full length movie and today is worth 3.6 million dollars. -
Canberra Becomes Australian Capital City
Canberra becomes capital and it was declared in 1911. It was after Federation and then Canberra was selected to be the nation’s capital. -
Australian troops land at Gallipoli
Australian troops land at Gallipoli. -
Sydney Harbor 6th year in construction
The Sydney Harbor bridge is in its 6th year of construction. And Britain donated 6.2 million dollars and it will take 50 years for Australia to repay them. -
Sydney Harbor is starting its construction
Sydney Harbor is going to start its construction. They used 1400 men to build the bridge and it took 8 years to build. The cost was 42 million dollars. It used 6 million hand- operated rivets, 53,000 tons of steel was used in the construction. -
Vegemite
Vegemite was invented in 1923 but wasn't popular until 1950. -
The First Ever White Vs Black Man Boxing Match
Australia for the first time hosted a White Vs Black man boxing match. There names were Tommy Burns Jack Johnson. 70,000 people went and 50,000 people shouted racist things. Jack Johnson was the first ever black man to be a heavy weight champion. -
Phar Lap
Phar Lap won the Melbourne cup and was a very famous horse. His rider was Jim Pike, his owner was an American business man David J. Davis and his trainer was Harry Telford. Sadly a year later Phar Lap died from poisoning at the age of 5. -
WW2
Italian, Japanese and German citizens are locked away in fear that they will try to destroy Australia from the inside.
German, Italian and Japanese People are put in camps because people were afraid of them destroying their country. -
world War II
Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced that Australia would be going to war with Britain against Germany. -
Period: to
Baby Boom
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Australia Declared War On Japan
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snow
1949 Australia’s snow electric scheme 25years to complete -
vit stuff
In 1949 Australia switches to America, leaving England for protection -
1950 Immigration Scheme
1950 Immigration Scheme Including mostly Baltic, European and American people. -
bars with girls
Now thousands of cafes open up around Australia making cafes a tradition to Australia people try to shut them down but it’s no use. -
1st Sidewalk Cafe on Collinz Street
1st side walk caffee opened in Australia -
deaths in the Vietnam war
Wars played a great role in shaping the identity and culture of people -
Vietnam war
7,000 Australians are sent to fight against Vietnam -
war deaths
More than 3 million (including over 58,000 Americans) died in the Vietnam War. -
cold war
1956 the cold war breaks out sending thousands of Australians to fight the Vietnamese -
1956 Summer Olympics are held in Melbourne
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1957
a bunch of immigration and housing schemes to help the brits -
The Expansion
Cities Built bigger for population
1957 migration scheme to help brits
1957 scheme helps the brits get jobs -
more houses
More schemes to help the brits who killed us in ww2 because they were too scared to fight for their own country -
mango mans
in 1969 the 20,000 year old corpse mango man was found -
sydney opera house openenenenenenenens
opera events are held and every body is joyful (or something well atleast not the poor who prolly couldnt afford a tv or transport to see the sydney opera house) THE ELITE WERE SO HAPPY -
1974 Straya Crack Epidemic
1974 was a trash year for our kangarooland -
Cyclone Tracy
Devastation same year as Crack Epidemic -
Vietnamese immigration
Up until 1975 there were fewer than 2,000 Vietnamese people in Australia. -
queen n stuff
In 1975 colored TV came to Australia with ACDC and Queen -
1978 Mardi Gra
1st mardi gra also alot of dead people -
Australia Communist Party
started 1920 ended 1991 really good -
PORT AUTHOR MASSACRE
PORT AUTHOR MASSACRE
In 1996 there was a mass shooting in port author, Tasmania. It was such a huge thing on the news and radios because 35 people were killed and 23 people were injured. Martain Bryant pleaded guilty for the attack and went to jail for a 35 year life sentence. -
WOMAN PAY FOR FOOTY
In football the pay wages is so much different from the men to the woman. Men get over $300.000 a year and woman get between $3.000 and $10,000. That is just totally unfair because they are playing the exact same sport and they get around 50 times less the amount of money men get. -
SAME SEX MARRIAGE
On the ninth of December 2018 same sex marriage was voted yes and now people can marry someone who is the same gender as them. This was a big thing in Australia’s history because people have been fighting for same sex marriage for ages and when it was voted yes many people celebrated but the current prime minister Scott Morrison voted NO! -
CHRISTCHURCH ATTACK (pt egg boy)
After the New Zealand incident a politic Fraser Anning was at a press and he said it was the peoples fault they got shot and a young boy who was there egged Fraser Anning because he thought that what he said was rude, racist and totally the wrong thing to say. Fraser punched the boy and all of his supporters started to attack him. After the incident semiautomatic guns were banned in new Zealand which is a great thing. -
CHRISTCHURCH ATTACK
On the 15 of march 2019 there was an attack in New Zealand. Some people say that it was a tersest attack. It was on two of the mosques and they killed 49 people and injured more than 50 people. It was big because the person that did it was Australian and he did it because of their religion and he thought they didn’t belong. -
info
About 0.8% of the Australian resident population was born in Vietnam in terms of birth place- -
big Vietnam
Vietnam has been the fifth largest source of immigration behind 5 other countries -
our origins
There are debates about when the first humans came. Most people say we came 190,000 years ago from central Africa and migrated North to the Middle East 120,000 years ago and then finally reached Australia via Papa New Guinea 50,000 years ago. Although some people believe the Indigenous Australians were here during the dreamtime
