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Topic: Australian referendum, 1999 (Establishment of Republic)

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	ipedia.com: Australia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The colony of New South Wales was established in Sydney by captain and governor Arthur Phillip on January 26, 1788 as a British Crown Colony.
		On 1 January 1901, federation of the Colonies occurred and the Commonwealth of Australia was born, as a dominion of the British Empire.
		In 1999, a referendum was held on constitutional change to a republic, with an appointed President replacing the Queen as head of state, but this was rejected.
	www.ipedia.com /australia.html (2075 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Established as a territory of the UK in 1965, a number of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) islands were transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976.
		Between the referendum and the arrival of a multinational peacekeeping force in late September 1999, anti-independence Timorese militias - organized and supported by the Indonesian military - commenced a large-scale, scorched-earth campaign of retribution.
		The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela).
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html (16146 words)

	Indonesia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The new republic had been planned as a federation of 16 constituent regions, but was made unitary in 1950.
		In January 1999 after months of increasing political pressure, the government consented to consider further the possibility of autonomy or even independence for East Timor, annexed by Indonesia in 1976.
		By October 1999, the Indonesian parliament had agreed unanimously to accept East Timor's independence, and the UN agreed to send 11,000 peacekeepers to oversee the implementation of independence.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Indonesia (6323 words)

	Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Various surveys conducted before and since the referendum suggest that the majority of Australians favour some form of republic, and hence many people ascribe the negative result of the referendum to dissatisfaction with the particular republican model that was proposed (A further discussion of this issue can be found in the topic Australian republicanism).
		The Indigenous Australian population, estimated at about 500,000 at the time of European settlement, declined steeply for 150 years but had recovered to 386,049 (including Torres Strait Islanders, who are of Papuan descent) in 1996.
		Although the Australian colonies were founded as a penal colonies (except for South Australia and Western Australia - with the latter later receiving convicts), the transportation of British convicts to Australian colonies was gradually phased out between 1840 and 1868.
	577.mallforeverything.com (4185 words)

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