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MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIA’S HISTORY
A SET OF 17 SLIDES ABOUT SOME OF THE BIG THEMES GLENN MARTIN, OCTOBER 2016
“TERRA AUSTRALE”THE GREAT UNKNOWN SOUTHERN LANDTHEVENOT’S MAP, 1644
CAPTAIN COOK CLAIMING POSSESSION OF AUSTRALIA, 1770
MODERN AUSTRALIA BEGINS AS A CONVICT COLONY
EARLY ENCOUNTERS WITH ABORIGINES
SYDNEY COVE, ABOUT 1810
COLONIES ARE ESTABLISHED AT PORT PHILLIP BAY, HOBART TOWN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, SWAN RIVER, MORETON BAY.GOLD IS DISCOVERED.
EXPLORERS EXPAND THE REACH OF THE COLONIES
Building the road over the
Blue Mountains
PIONEERS, SQUATTERS, SETTLERS TAKE CONTROL OF THE LAND FOR FARMING
SETTLERS COME INTO CONFLICT WITH ABORIGINES
THE COLONIES CONTINUE TO GROW AND PROSPER
George Street, Sydney, 1906
AUSTRALIANS BECOME IMPATIENT WITH BRITISH RULE AND BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT SELF-GOVERNMENT
Australian Federation Conference, Melbourne,
1890
THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA IS FORMED IN 1901 AS A FEDERATION OF THE STATES
AUSTRALIA SEARCHES FOR A SENSE OF IDENTITY
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Gallipoli, 1915
IN THE 20TH CENTURY, AUSTRALIANS HAD TO RETHINK WHO THEY WERE, MANY TIMES OVERAttitudes towards:• people who are not Anglo-Saxon – Europeans,
southern Europeans (eg Italians, Greeks), Asians • people who have different
religions• Aborigines• women
SOME THINGS CHANGED FOR ABORIGINES
Vincent Lingiari with Gough Whitlam, 1975 Eddie Mabo, Native Title, 1992
BUT IT’S NOT OVER YET
The big questions remain:• Who are “we” in the world?• How do we make peace with our past?• How do we accept and include others?• What kind of people are we?• How do we look after this land?