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	History of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The prehistory of Australia is the term used to describe the period of approximately 50,000 years (possibly a lot more) between the arrival of humans on the Australian continent and the first definite sighting of Australia by Europeans in 1606, which may be taken as the beginning of the history of Australia.
		On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies was achieved after a decade of planning, consultation and voting, and the Commonwealth of Australia was born, as a Dominion of the British Empire.
		Australia remains a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II the Queen of Australia; the 1999 referendum to establish a republic was marginally rejected.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Australia (825 words)

	History of Australia - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		Australia has been inhabited for at least 50,000 years, since the remote ancestors of the current Australian Aboriginal people arrived from Southeast Asia.
		In 1901, Australia adopted a federal constitution and became a self-governing dominion of the British Empire.
		Australia remains a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state: a referendum to establish a republic was defeated in 1999.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/History_of_Australia (184 words)

	Australia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Australia's neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east.
		Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role that is distinct from her position as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
		Australia led the formation of the Cairns Group and APEC, and is a member of the OECD and the WTO.
	search.localcolorart.com /search/encyclopedia/Australia (4748 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Australia before 1901 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The history of Tasmania begins in prehistory where it is believed that the island was joined to the mainland until the end of the most recent ice age approximately 10 000 years ago.
		The traditional movement of people between Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia in sailing craft for trade and fishing indicates the possibility of Arab and Chinese traders to the northern islands learning of and then visiting the shores of the southern continent from as early as the 9th century.
		William Lawson (1774-1850), explorer of New South Wales, Australia, was born in London and arrived in Sydney as an ensign with the New South Wales Corps in 1800.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Australia-before-1901 (9981 words)

	History of Western Australia - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		The plate was eventually returned to Australia in 1947 and is currently housed in the Maritime Museum in Fremantle.
		Due to the slow growth, which in turn was felt to be due to the lack of manpower in establishing critical infrastructure, the colony finally agreed to receiving convict labour and on 1 June 1850 the first boatload of convicts arrived.
		Interestingly, Western Australia was becoming a convict state at a time when the eastern states, largely due to goldrushes, were abandoning convict labour.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/History_of_Western_Australia (1862 words)

	australia
		Australia is both the name of the world's smallest continent, and the short form of the Commonwealth of Australia.
		Australia is a Constitutional monarchy, with Elizabeth II reigning as 'Queen of Australia'.
		The Commonwealth of Australia is a constitutional monarchy: the Queen of Australia is the official head of state and is represented by the Governor General.
	www.fact-library.com /australia.html (901 words)

	Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is believed that first human migration to Australia was achieved when this landmass earlier formed part of the Sahul continent, connected to the island of New Guinea via a land bridge.
		In central Australia, for example, men were required to marry women of a specified degree of cousinage.
		As at June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident indigenous population to be 458,500 (2.4% of Australia's total), 90% of whom identified as Aboriginal, 6% Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% being of dual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parentage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Aborigine (3735 words)

	Constitutional history of Australia
		Before 1927, King George V reigned as king in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Irish Free State, South Africa, etc., each of these states, in effect, as dominions, amounting to a subset of the United Kingdom.
		Whereas before 1927, it was correct in law to talk about the British monarch reigning in the dominions, after 1927, there was technically a 'King of Australia', etc., even if that title was never used formally, with the only link being that that monarch was British and resident outside the Commonwealth of Australia.
		In April 1933, a referendum in Western Australia produced a 68% yes vote to leave the Commonwealth of Australia - with the aim of returning to the British Empire as an autonomous territory.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/constitutional_history_of_australia (1623 words)

	HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA SINCE 1901 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Australia became officially autonomous in both internal and external affairs with the passage of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act on October 9 1942.
		Australia's dependence on primary exports such as wheat and wool was cruelly exposed by the Great Depression of the 1930s, which produced unemployment and destitution even greater than those seen during the 1890s.
		Australia's participation in Vietnam, and particularly the use of conscription, became politically contentious and saw massive protests, though they were for the most part peaceful, and Menzies' successors Harold Holt, more pointedly John Gorton and especially William McMahon were considerably less in tune with public opinion on this and many other issues.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/HISTORY+OF+AUSTRALIA+SINCE+1901 (2050 words)

	Australian Aborigine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In present-day Victoria, for example, there were two separate communities with an economy based on fish-farming in complex and extensive irrigated pond systems; one on the Murray River in the state's north, the other in the south-west near Hamilton, which traded with other groups from as far away as the Melbourne area.
		The large fish-farming economy in south-west Victoria, for example, was entirely unknown to science until the turn of the 21st century, when investigations by a team of archaeologists working with and guided by surviving members of a local Aboriginal community began to unearth the foundations of houses and rediscover the irrigation system.
		As large sheep and cattle stations came to dominate outback Australia, Aboriginal women, men and children became a significant source of labour (primarily as domestic servants or station-hands), sometimes on a voluntary basis, but often under conditions that amounted to virtual slavery.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Australian_Aborigines (2393 words)

	Encyclopedia: History-of-Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The prehistory of Australia is the term used to describe the period of approximately 50,000 years (possibly a lot more) between the arrival of humans on the Australian continent and the first definite sighting of Australia by Europeans in 1606, which may be taken as the beginning of the...
		This badge from 1906 shows the use of the expression White Australia at that time The White Australia Policy was the common designation given to the official policy of all governments and all mainstream political parties in Australia based on excluding non-white people from immigrating to the Australian continent...
		Categories: History of Australia Sometimes history is divided by continent: Histories by continent History of Africa History of the Americas History of Antarctica History of Asia History of Australia History of Eurasia History of Europe History of North America History of South America History of South Asia See also: History by country History by...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History_of_Australia (2783 words)

	Encyclopedia: Liberal Party of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia.
		Throughout their history, the Liberals have been the party of the urban middle-class, though such class-based voting patterns are no longer as clear as they once were.
		Menzies was an ardent royalist, devoted towards maintaining Australia as a constitutional monarchy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Party-of-Australia (4426 words)

	History of Australia
		Australia was uninhabited until stone-culture peoples arrived, perhaps by boat across the waters separating the island from the Indonesia archipelago more than 40,000 years ago.
		Australia passed the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act on October 9, 1942, which officially established Australia's complete autonomy in both internal and external affairs.
		Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
	infotut.com /geography/Australia (508 words)

	Constitutional history of Australia - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After European settlement Australia was originally a number of separate British colonies, eventually six in all.
		The establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia is generally taken as the date of Australia's independence from the United Kingdom; but matters are more complicated than that.
		One link with the United Kingdom still remains however: Australia and its states, though separate constitutional monarchies (each state is formally a separate monarchy), share the same monarch with the United Kingdom.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Australian_Constitutional_History (1031 words)

	HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA BEFORE 1901 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Little is known of the bulk of the Aboriginal peoples: European colonists, intent on carving a living from their harsh new land, paid little attention to them, and by the time anthropological investigation had become both fashionable and practicable, the only intact Aboriginal societies were those in very remote (and usually extremely arid) areas.
		It is likely that the Chinese have had some knowledge of Australia since the 13th century or before.
		This was the foundation of the White Australia Policy, which lasted well into the 20th century.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/HISTORY+OF+AUSTRALIA+BEFORE+1901 (2953 words)

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		History is a record of the doings of men living in communities, not of blind, nerveless forces.
		GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 1901 Earl of Hopetoun (afterwards Marquis of Linlithgow).
		In this way the western coasts of Australia were brought within sight of the regular sailing track of vessels from Europe; and as soon as that occurred the finding of other portions of the coast was only a matter of time.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /ebooks02/0200471.txt (16236 words)

	History of Sydney -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This is a history of the city of (The largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port) Sydney.
		Although (The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban) urbanisation has destroyed most evidence of these settlements, there are still rock carvings in several locations.
		Prisoners were quickly set to work to build the settlement and by 1822 the town had banks, markets, well-established thoroughfares and an organised constabulary; by 1847 convicts accounted for only 3.2 percent of the population.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Hi/History_of_Sydney.htm (738 words)

	List of Australia-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australia, Australian birds, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Constitutional History, Australian cuisine, Australian Dollar, Australian electoral system, Australian fauna, Australian flora, Australian House of Representatives, Australian Labor Party, Australian public holidays, Australian Senate, Australian States and Territories
		Campdrafting, Canberra, Cinema of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, Communications in Australia, Culture of Australia
		High Court of Australia, History of Australia, History of Australia before 1901, History of Australia since 1901, History of Western Australia, Hospitals
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Australia-related_topics (234 words)

	History of Australia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The land was not discovered by (A native or inhabitant of Europe) Europeans until the (Click link for more info and facts about 17th century) 17th century.
		Five other colonies, some penal and some free, were founded in the early (Click link for more info and facts about 19th century) 19th century.
		In 1901, Australia adopted a federal (The act of forming something) constitution and became a self-governing (Dominance or power through legal authority) dominion of the (Formerly the United Kingdom and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I) British Empire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Hi/History_of_Australia.htm (210 words)

	Referencing - History of Australia - Eureka Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Referencing - History of Australia - Eureka Council
		A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., ABRS.
		A.E.Orchard A History of Systematic Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed., ABRS.
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		History of Blindness in the United States, which received the first Bledsoe Award from the American Association of Workers for the Blind as a major contribution to the literature.
		Before joining AFB in 1976, he had been a factory worker, radio mechanic in the British Royal Air Force, teacher, market research analyst, encyclopedia editor and magazine editor.
		Before joining the Ziegler, he held a variety of positions in the communications industry, including writing news stories for print and broadcast outlets, as well as handling public relations duties for such diverse organizations as a Shakespeare festival, a university sports information office, and a school for blind children, where his interest in blindness developed.
	www.zieglermag.org /history.html (7163 words)

	Cyndi's List - Ireland & Northern Ireland
		Many records were created before Ireland was partitioned and after the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, some, such as the Tithe Applotment Books and National School records were split on a county basis.
		For anyone with a genealogical interest in the history of the Fenian Brotherhood and the Irish revolutionary movement that was formed in 1857 and continued on until the 1870s.
		For those who are researching Irish ancestry and history to discuss ways of improving their skills in searching for their Irish ancestors.
	www.cyndislist.com /ireland.htm (3316 words)

	The Ultimate Mallee - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Mallee is any of a variety of eucalyptus species that grow with multiple stems that can propagate through coppice re-sprouting from lignotubers.
		Mallees are very well-equipped to withstand fire and drought, and are understood to have increased significantly in range since humans first arrived in Australia around 50,000 years ago and transformed the landscape.
		Note that mallee is widespread in many other areas of Australia also.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Mallee (256 words)

	Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) - Promoting History - AUSTRALIA 1901: BEFORE AND BEYOND - Bringing Australia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Note: Whilst the matching up of partner schools between metropolitan schools and non-metropolitan schools is no longer being facilitated, schools may like to consider placing an 'Ad' in the Partner Schools Ads section of the Global Classroom Project or using existing penpal or sisterschool arrangements.
		The Bringing Australia Together project provides teachers and students with an opportunity to work on a range of tasks in a collaborative online environment.
		Whilst some tasks require students to research, design, create, discuss and perform within their own community, there are many tasks which invite students to compare, reflect and share their findings and develop common understandings about the similiarities and differences between the two schools and their neighbourhood communities.
	www.sofweb.vic.edu.au /sose/history/fed100/projectsnat/cityinfo.htm (407 words)

	MyRoots FAQ's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The history begins with the earliest record of the family name and then follows the family as it branched through the Old Country and subsequently through the New World.
		The history lists the names of the earliest settlers as they migrated to North America, middle age and modern notables of the family name; variations in spelling, as well as, the family's most ancient Coat of Arms in full color.
		Yes, it is possible to preview some of the information directly relating to your Family Name History or Coat of Arms before placing an order on-line.
	www.myroots.com /FAQ.html (659 words)

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