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First European Country to land on Australia soil
Australian outlaw, bushranger
Name of Dutch explorer to land on the west side of Cape York QLD in 1606
Darwin city original name
First Fleet of British ships arrived at
Location of first Massacre in 1629
Name of second European explorer to land on Australia soil
Who first established Darwin in 1869
Name of first European contact on Western Australia coastline
Name of the first explorer to land on the east coast of Australia in 1770
The last known official massacre of Indigenous Australians was in which State or Territory
First Australian cricket team to tour England in 1868 consist of
In 1851 Australian gold rush began in which State or Territory
Nickname of over 500,000 people rushed to the gold fields of Australia in 1852
why did Britain transport convicts to Australian colonies
Majority of convicts were transported for what
The last convict ship arrived in which State or Territory
Which subregion of Asia traded with aboriginals before Europeans
Name of massacre led by commander Charles Hutton as a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of their lands.
Name of woman who was considered to have been the last full blooded aboriginal Tasmanian
First Prime Minister of Australia
First recorded use of Aboriginal trackers in Australia was in which state or Territory in 1835
Name of convict who was sentenced to death in 1788 for stealing but was given the option of being pardoned if he became the public hangman.
Australia means
Name of aboriginal man, initially utilised as a tracker for the police and became a fugitive when he was forced to capture his own people
What animal was use as transport during the colonisation of the central and western parts of Australia
The colonists were led to believe that Australia was TERRA NULLIUS meaning
What year was the first athletics tournament held in Australia?
Physical survival was rather more important than what? in the first decades of European settlement
Perth was named after a town in which country
City of Adelaide was derive from whose name
City of Brisbane was derive from whose name
In 1804, Irish convicts led the "what" Rebellion, a rebellion by convicts against colonial authority of the British colony of New South Wales.
Sydney was at first to be titled "What"

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