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John Batman (21 January 1801 – 6 May 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer, who had a prominent role in the founding of Melbourne.. Born and raised in the then-British colony of New South Wales, Batman settled in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania) in the 1820s, where he rose to prominence for hunting bushrangers and leading massacres of Aboriginal people in the ...
1880s Artist impression of the Treaty being signed. On 6 June Batman recorded in his journal that he had signed a treaty with the local Aboriginal people, the Wurundjeri.In this treaty Batman purported to buy 2,000 km 2 (772 sq mi) of land near the Yarra River and another 400 km 2 (154 sq mi) around Geelong, on Corio Bay to the south-west.
The Division of Batman was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.It took its name from John Batman, one of the founders of the city of Melbourne.The division was created in 1906, replacing the Division of Northern Melbourne, and was abolished in 2019 and replaced by the Division of Cooper.
For the first time, Melbourne acquired a large Muslim population, and the official policy of multiculturalism encouraged Melbourne's various ethnic and religious minorities to maintain and celebrate their identities. At the same time, the practice of mainstream Christianity largely declined, leading to a secularisation of public life.
The document came to be known as Batman's Treaty and is considered significant as it was the first and only documented time when Europeans negotiated their presence and occupation of Aboriginal lands directly with the traditional owners. [1] The treaty was implicitly declared void on 26 August 1835 by the Governor of New South Wales, Richard ...
The Canadian men's basketball team will face Australia in its second group phase game of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Tuesday in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France.. Canada, which is led by OKC Thunder ...
First published in July 1964, Batmania was a comics fanzine published by Billy Joe "Biljo" White, produced for "Batmanians" as the unofficial "fanzine for Batman fans." [3] Appearing under the motto "For Batman, we accept nothing as impossible," White's fanzine was released a year after sales on the two Batman titles – Batman and Detective Comics – had "dipped alarmingly."
Sadie Sink is struggling to say goodbye.. While appearing on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, Jan. 30, the Stranger Things star, 22, opened up about the end of her time on the ...