Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
To obtain the photos, Chuck photographed some of the surviving settlers, borrowed negatives of others and copied them and photographed portraits and paintings of the more famous. [2] The original framed photograph is 1.5 metres high and 1.2 metres wide. It was presented to the State Library of Victoria in 1872 is still held by them. Later Chuck ...
The 1890s were also a period of economic hardship in Australia, the result of which was a reduction in the size of the permanent forces in a number of colonies, decreased training opportunities, reductions in pay for militia and decreased turn out in volunteer units, although this last effect was largely turned around by the mid-1890s when ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2016) Old Government House, Parramatta, circa 1799 Old Military Barracks, now Legislative Assembly Chambers, Kingston, Norfolk Island Historic Ross Bridge with the Uniting Church in the background This is primarily a list of towns and cities in Australia by year of settlement. The article also contains information on ...
The first Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition was a series of exhibitions inspired by the historic Great Exhibition held in London in 1851. The Colony of New South Wales mounted its first such exhibition in 1854 in preparation for the Paris Exhibition of 1855, another in 1861 in preparation for the London Exhibition of 1862, [1] and then several more until being held annually throughout the 1870s ...
Charles Meere (1890–1961): English-Australian artist; Dora Meeson (1869–1955): painter; Annemieke Mein (born 1944): Dutch-born textile artist; Max Meldrum (1875–1955): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940; Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855–1938): Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator
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)
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.