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Between 1870 and 1890 average income per person in Australia was more than 50 per cent higher than that of the United States, giving Australia one of the highest living standards in the world. [31] The size of the government sector almost doubled from 10 per cent of national expenditure in 1850 to 19 per cent in 1890.
Each of the Australian colonies gained responsible government between 1855 and 1890, and while the Colonial Office in London retained control of some affairs, and the colonies were still firmly within the British Empire, the Governors of the Australian colonies were required to raise their own colonial militias.
14 January – Sir George Pearce, Western Australian politician (d. 1952) 17 May – Sir Newton Moore, 8th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1936) 1 November – Christopher Brennan, poet, scholar and literary critic (d. 1932) 21 November – Joe Darling, cricketer (d. 1946) 26 December – Norman Ewing, 23rd Tasmanian Opposition Leader (d. 1928)
9 March - Rupert Balfe, Australian rules footballer and soldier (died 1915) 10 March – Albert Ogilvie, Premier of Tasmania (died 1939) 10 July – Leo Rush, Australian rules footballer (died 1983) 18 July – Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1983) 29 August – Richard Gardiner Casey, Governor General of Australia (died 1976)
New South Wales Naval Brigade. At the time of the Boxer Rebellion, naval brigades from New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, were part of the British contingent in the field force under General Alfred Gaselee, in the Gaselee Expedition, a successful relief by a multinational military force that in 1900 marched to Beijing and protect the diplomatic legations and foreign nationals in ...
Between 1870 and 1890 average income per person in Australia was more than 50 per cent higher than that of the United States, giving Australia one of the highest living standards in the world. [216] The size of the government sector almost doubled from 10 per cent of national expenditure in 1850 to 19 per cent in 1890.
The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations. The Bulletin exerted significant influence on Australian culture and politics, emerging as "Australia's most popular magazine" by the late 1880s. [1]
The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora , and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of the British Empire .