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In 1836 between July and December eight ships came across to Kangaroo Island and aboard two of those boats were Col William Light aboard the HMS Rapid and George Strickland Kingston aboard the HMS Cygnet. They both set off to survey the coastline and found a bigger land mass for the colonists to settle on and this is when they came across

Australia was first claimed by Captain Cook in early 1770, but it wasn’t settled until 1788 when the first fleet of 11 ships arrived at Botany Bay, carrying 1,530 passengers - mostly convicts, as well as some marines and officers. They moved to Port Jackson to begin establishing a settlement. Specific prisoners were chosen for the trip, the ones with skills in building, farming and other things that would have been useful to create a “liveable” environment for the new inhabitants. The first “free” settlers only arrived in 1793, thus beginning the colonisation of New South Wales.

Australia Day which the Aborigines call ‘Invasion Day’, ‘Day of Mourning’ and ‘Survival Day’, marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney Cove.

Many historians disagree on which historical event was key in shaping the Australian identity. Two common answers are Federation, and the fall-out of World War One. Both events have had significant impact on the evolving identity of the Australian people. World War I was a military conflict that lasted for the four years between July 1914 and November 1918. World War One was a force of change due to the nature of Australia's involvement at home and in politics. Prime Minister Billy Hughes came to power just six months after the start of the war. This meant that as a politician, he held a significant sway with the Australian public. Both Hughes and the media influences at the time are key aspects of the Australian identity during the war, and

During the war the British soldiers looked up to the Australian soldiers because of their spirit. The Australian soldiers also looked up to the British soldiers and called England the Mother Country. Also the Australians liked to call themselves British. Lastly Britain bought a lot of Australia’s wheat to commemorate their war effort

Cricket was a very fair and fun sport until a little rivalry came along to create problems. This rivalry was created when the Quadrangular tournament began and after India was split into two subcontinents, India and Pakistan. “Even the sacred field of sport they would not leave unmolested. That is why things have become what they are on the cricket field today. That is why Quadrangular cricket has degenerated into religious rivalry” (Doc 7).

Moving pictures appeared in the first decade of the century, and were probably the most popular form of entertainment during the 1920s. Thousands of people were able to be entertained under the one roof of some huge theatres. Some of these theatres were exquisitely decorated and furnished, creating an atmosphere where patrons received maximum satisfaction. In 1929 "talkies" appeared for the first time in Australia, and thousands of people rushed to see the new talking, moving picture. Despite the popularity of entertainment in the form of mentally stimulating material, such as the radio and pictures, outdoor sport was another major form of relaxation during the 1920s. Thousands went to see Australia's new sporting heroes in horse racing, tennis, football and cricket. Australia experienced substantial success in international sporting competitions, especially in tennis where Australia defeated England in the Davis Cup, and in cricket where Australia defeated England in the first Test Series since the end of the war. Thousands of people also went to the beaches. In the early 1920s mixed bathing was still illegal and beaches were segregated. However, with the growing sense of social rebellion, more and more people ignored these laws and came to the beach to swim. Bathing costumes gradually lost pre-war modesty levels also. Evidently, the pictures and out-door sports were a top priority as forms of entertainment for the Australian

As the original country to settle in Australia (excluding Aboriginals), British Culture has a strong influence in Australia. Australia was originally a colony of Britain, and therefore its national identity was very similar to

Within the 1600s the dutch were the first europeans to reach australia, although in 1770 James Cook claimed australia for britain. Australia still had been distant, forty thousand years ago the first settlers had probably been citizens from southeast asia. But it was known that the first years of settlement were nearly disastrous. Supposedly the land had been cursed with spoiled soil, unfamiliar climate,

There is little said about aboriginal people in early Australian history books. What we do know is that the view of Non-Aboriginal people was very ethnocentric. The opinion was that Aboriginal was that they were savages and

Federation is one of the most important parts of Australian history. It is the time when we came with the term Australian, when we became a nation, got the right to vote, speak more freely, live more freely. Federation has made how we are today. It has changed history forever. Federation is the joining of states or colonies to become one nation. ‘For 20 years the issue of Federation domination political discussion between colonies till January 1st 1901, that was when the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed’.

1928-Don Bradman was selected to play Test cricket for Australia and at that first Test match in Brisbane, the Queenslanders were delighted to see ‘the baby’ of the Australian team bat. Sadly the team lost the first Test and a difficult batting wicket meant that Don was left out of the second test. However he made it back into

Before the 1700’s, the ethnicities in Australia were mainly restricted to only that of the Aborigines, and there were mainly only Aboriginal cultures present in Australian society, but by the 1770’s and the claiming of Australia for Britain, Australia became a melting pot of many different societies. Before the British arrived, Australia was made up of mainly Aboriginal and indigenous people who had lived in Australia for a long period of time. These people had no government nor specific social system, their existing form of “social classes” was simply kinship groups and small tribal groups. There were no wealthy landowners or any special “elite” people that were held at a higher standard in regards to society. The tribes usually kept to themselves, except for when trading, and the kinship groups were made of large immediate and extensive families. Over time, when the British moved people into Australia, this changed to model a more Europeanized society, like that of Britain. To kick off the large diversity in the ethnicities and the change in society of Australia, convicts, slaves, and various people were transported to Australia from Britain in 1778. These people were recorded in James Cook’s record books, and their ethnicities were recorded to help show the inflow of people into Australia’s society. With this flow of people from Britain

Although Australia participated in lots of wars, it still has world connections with the United States of America, China, New Zealand, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. In Australia, has almost every religions, 64% are Christian, 25.8% are Catholic, 2.7% are Muslims and 0.7 are Hinduism. The natives in Australia are called the Aboriginals. They came from Asia, and there are 500-600 different groups of them. In the year of 1788, on January, the first fleet of the follow convicts, which were most English, arrived on Botany Bay: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They were commanded by Captain Arthur Phillips.

Oddly, one of the newest of professional sports, bowling is one of the most ancient. In one form or another bowling has been around for more than 7,000 and years. First traces of the sport were discovered in Egyptian tombs, but historians feel that cavemen may well have had been the originator. Having the first form of