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Smallpox may have been introduced to northern Australia in the 1820s via Makassan contact. [41] This remains unproven as First Fleet smallpox was already recorded as spreading across Australia from Sydney Cove. [42] The prevalence of the hereditary Machado–Joseph disease in the Groote Eylandt community has been attributed to outside contact.
In parallel to the coastal trade to Sydney, there was an interstate coastal trade in coal and coke from the same ports to other Australian states, particularly Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania where black coal was needed for steamship coal bunkering, rail transport and industrial purposes and coke was needed for smelting ores.
Maritime drug smuggling into Australia refers to the smuggling of illicit drugs into Australia by sea. While much contemporary Australian media coverage has focused on smaller, more personalised smuggling cases such as the Bali Nine, maritime drug smuggling often allows criminal groups to move illicit drugs and substances into Australia at a much greater scale.
The seamen are called packetmen, and the business is called packet trade. "Packet" can mean a small parcel but, originally meant a parcel of important correspondence or valuable items, for urgent delivery. [3] The French-language term "paquebot” derives from the English term "packet boat," but means a large ocean liner.
Prior to Cape Naturaliste, the RAN already operated the Cape-class patrol boats Cape Fourcroy and Cape Inscription as well as the evolved Cape-class patrol boats Cape Otway and Cape Peron. [1] [2] [3] The ship was built by Austal in Henderson, Western Australia, accepted on 4 November 2022 and based at HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin, Northern Territory.
– via National Library of Australia. "The Trade of the Murray". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 22 December 1856. p. 2 – via National Library of Australia. Phillips, Peter J. Riverboat Ways: Australia's inland paddlewheelers Greenhouse Publications, Richmond, Victoria 1983 ISBN 0 909104 63 8
The boat, built by Austal in Henderson, Western Australia, had its keel laid in October 2014 and delivered in August 2015. [1] Austal was awarded a $350 million contract to construct eight Cape-class patrol boats for the Australian Border Force to replace the Bay-class patrol boats in 2011, with the eight boats delivered between 2013 and 2015 ...
The Regional Resettlement Arrangement between Australia and Papua New Guinea, colloquially known as the PNG solution, is an Australian Government policy in which any asylum seeker who comes to Australia by boat without a visa will be refused settlement in Australia, instead being settled in Papua New Guinea if they are found to be legitimate ...