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	History of Australia (1788-1850) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of Australia from 1788-1850 covers the early colonies period of Australia's history, from the first English settlement and penal colony at Port Jackson in 1788 to the establishment of other colonies and the spread of settlers.
		The European population of Australia during this period was mostly male; female convicts and free settlers were in a distinct minority, and were greatly in demand because of this.
		The primary split in the population during this period was between convicts, free settlers, and Indigenous Australians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Australia_(1788-1850) (884 words)

	History of Australia
		Australia has always been separated by at least 60 kilometers of water since the glacial maximum of 140,000 years ago - yet bushfires could have easily alerted those living north of the continent of its existence.
		A formal flag raising ceremony was held by Arthur Phillip on the shore to proclaim the Colony of New South Wales, in the name of the King of England on the 26th of January, 1788.
		The population grew rapidly during this period, helped by the discovery of gold and the gold rush of 1850 - one year after the Californian gold rush of 1849.
	www.crystalinks.com /australiahistory.html (1729 words)

	History - Australian history
		Australia’s soils, low rainfall, and recurrent droughts were better suited, however, for large-scale grazing than for arable farming, and the most successful and dramatic transformation of the Australian continent occurred in the 1830s and 1840s, as squatters established huge sheep runs.
		Australia was usually portrayed as a remote and unattractive land for European settlement, but for Great Britain it had strategic and, after the loss of the American colonies (1783), socio-economic value.
		Australia was challenged to address the land claims of the indigenous inhabitants, which had been disregarded for centuries.
	www.australianaustralia.com /page/History/238 (8154 words)

	History & Heritage Listings: P - S
		This is not the history of religion in Australia; rather, it is the history of conflicts with a religious basis since European colonisation.
		Her aim is to illuminate the history of twentieth-century working-class life through a detailed account of 'a generation and its community' through two wars, a depression and the long postwar boom.
		A history of the colony of Victoria, 1883 - 1889
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/argo/lists/hislist5.html (6761 words)

	Christian History Research Institute (Australia) - Australian Explorers - Christian Founders - Christian Explorers - Australian History - Church History - Christian Convicts - Christian immigrants Australia
		Johnson was a man with a vision for Australia and beyond; he was a man with the heart of God.
		Christian History Research Institute (Australia) - Australian Explorers - Christian Founders - Christian Explorers - Australian History - Church History - Christian Convicts - Christian immigrants Australia
		Born in London in 1788, Threlkeld was an actor until he was converted.
	www.chr.org.au /sl/slhs7.html (4194 words)

	The Wine Industry of Australia 1788 1979
		Australia's population doubled to over a million in the decade 1851-61 and as the easily won gold gave out disappointed diggers turned their attention to other means of livelihood.
		As in the case of our chief primary industries its history is a record of the vision, determination and fortitude of many pioneers who laboured under immense difficulties to give us one of the great fruits of the earth and who are long gathered unto her again.
		In 1788 a thousand people established a penal settlement at Port Jackson and the great problem that faced the largely unskilled and unwilling workforce set in strange and hostile surroundings was that of survival.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/ERIC/wia.html (6340 words)

	India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850 - smh.com.au
		India does not generally loom large in histories of Australia, yet this official catalogue of a show at the Museum of Sydney fills in a missing piece in the jigsaw of early colonial history.
		India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850 - smh.com.au
		Australia imported tea and porcelain water bottles, chamber pots and tea bowls, among other luxuries: silks, furniture, floor coverings, wallpaper, trinkets and toys.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/30/1054177716867.html (835 words)

	History of Australia presented by the Eureka Council
		History of Australia presented by the Eureka Council
		French navigator who claimed to discover of Australia in 1505.
		1850 - Bushranging on the Mainland to 1850 -
	www.eurekatimes.net (2028 words)

	AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
		Published for the Economic Society of Australia and the Ecomomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand to commemorate the centenary of publication of the first Australian economics journal.
		Brentnall emigrated to Australia in 1878 as a young man. Of particular interest are his chapters 'Early Memories of Golf in Britain and Australia'; notes to title page else almost fine copy.
		An examination of the English language and English speech as used in Australia, from convict days to the present, with special reference to the growth of indigenous idiom and its use by Australian writers.
	www.bspgallery.com.au /aust.htm (2070 words)

	First Fleet 1788 Story
		Between 1788 and 1850 the English sent over 162,000 convicts to Australia in 806 ships.
		It was these convicts, guilty of petty crimes that were the result of trying to survive the conditions of England at the time (eg stealing a loaf of bread), that were the pioneers who - through hard work and perserverance, made the colony survive and expand to the stage of self sufficiency.
		By July 1788, all the ships except the Naval vessels "Syrius" and "Supply" had left and the settlement was isolated.
	www.ulladulla.info /historian/ffstory.html (1569 words)

	Continuum 1.2: McQueen
		If the notion of writing a multi-volume history of Australia was seen as eccentric, Clark's approach to his material was seen as bizarre.
		In the twenty-five years between the publication of the first and sixth volumes of A History of Australia (1962-87), Manning Clark's achievement has altered the criteria by which his opus is judged.
		The impoverishment of intellectual life in Australia is epitomised by the virtual monopoly which universities have had on research funds, and which the tertiary sector will inherit under the Dawkins rearrangements.ÊÊSupport from the Australia Council is limited.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/1.2/McQueen.html (2735 words)

	NSW Stages 4-5 History Syllabus
		The HSIE K–6 Syllabus lays a foundation for learning in Stages 4–5, giving students a broad overview of the periods pre-1788, 1788–1850 and 1850 onwards in Australia’s history (without specific reference to Federation).
		Australia’s history, incorporating aspects of civics and citizenship from 1901 to the present
		It outlines a broad understanding of the citizenship and life of Aboriginal peoples in Australia before 1788 and an understanding of how the British colonists established their citizenship rights in Australia.
	www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au /4outcomes/h_prior.html (374 words)

	LIBRARY RESOURCES IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
		Australia, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Parliamentary handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, Vol.27, AGPS, Canberra, 1996.
		JCU's Australian History holdings are very good - and Tropicat will provide a general gateway to the collections.
		It is essential to use journals in history, since these contain the most recent and the most specialised research.
	homes.jcu.edu.au /~hidm/RESOURCES.htm (1096 words)

	Manning Clark - Psychology Central
		Clark's first publication was "Select documents in Australian History." It was published in two volumes: the first covering 1788-1850 in 1950, the second covering 1850-1900 in 1955.
		Manning Clark, AC (1915 - 1991) is one of Australia's best known historians, recognised for his mammoth six volume work simply entitled "History of Australia", published between 1962 and 1987.
		He was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civil honor, in 1975, and was Australian of the Year in 1980.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Manning_Clark (316 words)

	Monuments in Australia
		Jewish history in Australia began in 1788 when Jewish convicts numbered among the first European settlers.
		The first formal synagogue in Australia was designed by James Hume who had previously been associated with some of Sydney’s finest buildings.
		Today most of Australia’s 100,000 Jews are centered in two major cities: Melbourne’s Jews are mostly Polish with some Russians while Sydney’s are mostly Hungarian.
	www.isjm.org /Links/australiamonuments.htm (1261 words)

	Islamic Council of Victoria -- Muslims in Australia: A Brief History
		Tin Mosques and Ghantowns; A History of Afghan Cameldrivers in Australia.
		The Second World War and the economic boom which came in its wake, mark a watershed in the history of Muslims in Australia.
		[331] Report of the National Inquiry into racist Violence in Australia.
	www.icv.org.au /history9.shtml (1621 words)

	Squatters and Free Selectors: Land Tenure in Early Australia
		A brief history of pastoral leases in Australia.
		Early History of Land Tenure (Year Book Australia, 1910 AusStats
		History of Surveying in the Hunter Joe Grgas
	www.trinity.wa.edu.au /plduffyrc/subjects/sose/austhist/squatter.htm (281 words)

	Australia General
		The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868
		Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
		Australia > National > Ethnic History > Jewish
	www.gouldgenealogy.com /content/Australia.htm (5004 words)

	Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Chapter 1, References
		Peel, 'History of the Australian Pastoral Industries', in G. Alexander & O. Williams, The Pastoral Industries of Australia, rev. edn, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1986, pp.
		Bromby, The Farming of Australia, Doubleday, Sydney, 1986, 239 pp.
		Sutton, 'The Invention of the Stripper', Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, 14, 1937, pp.
	www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /tia/references1.html (2224 words)

	: : Historic Houses Trust - Publications : :
		India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788—1850 brings new scholarship to the history of Australia and its relations with the rest of the world.
		This lavishly illustrated 141 page publication featuring exquisite natural history watercolours and early views of the Pacific and Antarctica, and documenting rare material from prestigious French collections, is the most comprehensive publication on Dumont d'Urville and traces his many expeditions to Australia and the South Pacific.
		Joseph Lycett worked in Australia from 1815-1822 and was responsible for the most extravagantly illustrated account of the colony, published in London in 1824-25.
	www.hht.net.au /services/publications (2744 words)

	Tomfolio.com: History: Australia and South Pacific, Aust History
		Hughes, Robert, 1938- The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes Publisher: London : Collins Harvill, 1987, c1986.
		A history of the Jewish community in Australia from the First Fleet to the gold rush.
		Australia could have a crucial function in determining man's future-the possiblity for change is perhaps greater in this country than anywhere else, 360 pages, with a gift inscription by the author.
	www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=3093 (917 words)

	Reading list for European Settlement of Australia 1788-1901
		Clark, C.M.H., A History of Australia, 6 vols.
		Macintyre, Stuart, A Concise History of Australia (Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh, 1999).
		Carey, Hilary, Believing in Australia: A Cultural History of Religions in a Settler Society (Sydney, 1996) *
	www.dur.ac.uk /margaret.ray/readinglist.htm (2997 words)

	Documenting Democracy
		Battye, JS, Western Australia: A History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1924.
		This Act was extended by various other legislation from time to time until it was formally repealed by the Australian Constitutions Act 1850, [Constitutions] which dealt with the government of all of the Australian colonies.
		Black, D, The House on the Hill: A History of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832—1990, Parliament of Western Australia, Perth 1991.
	www.foundingdocs.gov.au /item.asp?dID=92 (341 words)

	AboriginesBiblio
		Stone, Sherman N. Aboriginals in White Australia: A Documentary History of the Attitudes Affecting Official Policy and the Australian Aborigine, 1697 - 1973.
		"The Coorong Massacre: A Study in Early Race Relations in South Australia", in Flinders Journal of History and Politics, vol.
		Jones, Lancaster F. The Structure and Growth of Australia's Aboriginal Population.
	www.aihgs.com /aborigin.htm (689 words)

	wantirnafhc
		Guide to Family History Resources in National Library of Aust
	home.vicnet.net.au /~ldsfhc/wantirna.htm (313 words)

	A New Land: European perceptions of Australia, 1788-1850 NZETC
		A New Land: European perceptions of Australia, 1788-1850
		A New Land: European perceptions of Australia, 1788-1850
		The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/name-122854.html (28 words)

	Genie and History Links - Australia
		Voyage of the barque EMIGRANT from Plymouth to Moreton Bay in 1850
		New South Wales and ACT Association of Family History Societies
		Queensland Association of Local and Family History Societies
	www.zades.com.au /genlink.html (822 words)

	Convicts Australia
		Convict History and Genealogy Links presented by Jenny Fawcett's Genseek Genealogy
	www.hotkey.net.au /~jwilliams4/cons.htm (19 words)

	History and Heritage Listings: A
		Generously illustrated with paintings, plans and black and white photographs by Wesley Stacey, this book discusses the architecture of 1788 - 1850 - the 'Australian colonial' period.
		Covering the period 1788 - 1949, this is a collection of mainly autobiographical writing about childhood, with some fiction and disguised autobiography, drawn from a variety of published and unpublished sources.
		It also deals with colonial-inspired architecture that has evolved since 1850, and which was fashionable from the 1920s to the beginning of World War II.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/argo/lists/hislist1.html (19 words)

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