Great Moments in Australian History

Part title
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Title page
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Foreword
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Contents
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Introduction
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Timeline
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Prelude: Sixty thousand years ago: Aboriginal arrival
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1606: First European lands in Australia, by mistake
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1629: Batavia savagery kickstarts European history in Australia
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1770: Captain Cook discovers east coast of New Holland
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1783: A New Yorker ‘invents’ Australia
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1788: Lieutenant King befriends Botany Bay Aborigines
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1788: Captain Phillip founds a European settlement half a world from Europe
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1791: Mary Bryant makes the greatest convict escape
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1793: Bennelong becomes first Aborigine to meet the King
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1804: Flinders puts Australia on the map
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1805: John Macarthur ‘starts’ wool industry
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1808: Rum Rebellion deposes Governor Bligh
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1810: Lachlan Macquarie lays foundations for a great city
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1813: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross Blue Mountains
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1834: Buckley ‘Murrangurk’: Wild white man returns from dead
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1851: Hargraves discovers gold and transforms colonies
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1854: Peter Lalor leads Eureka rebellion demanding democracy
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1856: Trade union leader James Stephens wins eight-hour day
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1860: Burke and Wills cross continent for first time
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1880: The last stand of Australia’s most famous bushranger
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1889: Sir Henry Parkes inspires colonies to form a nation
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1890: Man from Snowy River springs to life
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1895: Banjo Paterson and Christina Macpherson create ‘Waltzing Matilda’
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1901: Barton ushers in new nation of Australia
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1904: John Watson forms world’s first Labour Government
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1912: Mawson survives Antarctic blizzard for Australia’s sake
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1914: HMAS Sydney, round 1: Captain Glossop sinks Germany’s Emden
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1915: Charles Bean lands with the Anzacs at Gallipoli
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1915: Albert Jacka wins Australia’s first Gallipoli VC
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1917: Sir John Forrest rides first transcontinental train
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1917: Light Horse charge captures Beersheba
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1918: General Monash wins turning-point battle of Hamel
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1919: Smith brothers fly from England to Australia
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1921: Women break new ground as Edith Cowan enters Parliament
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1927: Dame Nellie Melba helps open nation’s new Parliament
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1930: Melbourne Cup wonder horse Phar Lap wins Australian hearts
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1932: Jack Lang and Captain de Groot open Sydney Harbour Bridge
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1934: Bradman conquers world cricket
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1934: ‘Smithy’ flies the world to conquer the skies
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1941: HMAS Sydney, round 2: Germans sink Australian flagship
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1941: Fearful Prime Minister switches allegiance from Britain to USA
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1942: Watchman spots Japanese midget sub attacking Sydney Harbour
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1942: Chocolate soldiers stop ‘Japs’ on Kokoda Track
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1943: Enid Lyons becomes first woman elected to Federal Parliament
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1945: Dr Florey wins Nobel Prize for saving soldiers’ lives
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1945: Dancing Man celebrates Second World War victory
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1954: Queen Elizabeth II conquers Australian hearts
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1956: Golden Girl stars in first Olympics ‘Down Under’
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1965: Charlie Perkins’ Freedom Ride confronts racism
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1971: Jack Mundey introduces world’s first green bans
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1971: Boomerang thrower becomes first Aboriginal parliamentarian
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1972: Aborigines achieve separate representation with Tent Embassy
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1972: Whitlam leads Labor to power, breaking 23-year drought
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1973: Queen opens Sydney’s Opera House without Utzon
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1975: Governor-General sacks Prime Minister Whitlam
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1983: Green pioneer Bob Brown helps save Franklin River
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1983: John Bertrand wins America’s Cup in Australia II
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1988: ‘First Fleet’ tall-ships thrill Australia
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1993: Eddie Mabo wins land rights victory
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2000: Cathy Freeman wins Olympic gold in Sydney
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2002: Doctor saves lives after Bali bombings
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2007: Julia Gillard becomes highest-placed woman in politics
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2008: Prime Minister says ‘sorry’ to Aborigines
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2008: HMAS Sydney found after sixty-six years
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2009: Residents pioneer ‘go’ not ‘stay’ in nation’s worst bushfires
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2009: Captain Bligh’s descendant becomes first elected female Premier
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Acknowledgements
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Picture credits
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