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Many German migrants living in South Australia and Victoria moved to the Riverina after the 1861 Robertson Land Act provided...
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When James Cook sailed on the east coast of Australia in 1770 he named it New South Wales...
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Bungaree, from Broken Bay, was for many years the best known Aboriginal person in Georgian Sydney...
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Before 1900, there was no actual country called Australia, there were six colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania...
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The North Head Quarantine Station occupies the first site officially designated as a place of quarantine for people entering Australia... The
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Matthew Flinders was born at Donington, Lincolnshire, on 16 March 1774. In 1789 he entered the Royal Navy and two years later joined...
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In March 1851, Edward Hargraves wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald to announce that he had found payable gold just outside the New South Wales town of Bathurst...
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These tins were found on the Sofala goldfields. They were used to import and store opium...
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The outbreak of fighting in Europe in August 1914 immediately brought Australia into the 'Great War'. Within one week of the declaration of war all German subjects in Australia were declared 'enemy aliens'...
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Vietnam has been invaded many times. In the nineteenth century it became part of France's empire in South-East Asia. During World War II, Vietnam was invaded...
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