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The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.
Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. 1951 - Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party; 1951 - Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Yagan (c.1795 - 1833) a Western Australian Indigenous leader of the 1830s; Yarramundi (c.1760 - c.1819) a prominent Dharug man, also a karadji; Yarri (c.1810 - 1880) a famous flood rescuer from Gundagai; Yemmerrawanne (c. 1775 - 1794) a Dharug man who, along with Bennelong, was the first Aboriginal person to travel to England.
19 June – John McDonald, Western Australian politician (b. 1869) 30 June – David Charleston, South Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1848) 14 July – John Thomson, New South Wales politician (b. 1862) 31 July – Charles McGrath, Victorian politician (b. 1872) 6 August – Alexander Leeper, educationist (born in ...
April – Up to 60 Jardwadjali Aboriginal people are killed in the Fighting Waterholes massacre. The Whyte brothers William, George, Pringle and James Whyte and their employees were responsible. May – British Government agrees to cease sending convicts to New South Wales, some 80,000 convicts had been sent since 1788. [ 1 ]
12 May – Sir Frederick Holder, 19th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909) 23 August – Sir John Cockburn, 18th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929) 7 September – James Stewart, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1931) 22 October – Charles Kingston, 20th Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
Lists of people legally executed in Australia: List of people legally executed in New South Wales; List of people legally executed on Norfolk Island; List of people legally executed in the Northern Territory; List of people legally executed in Queensland; List of people legally executed in South Australia; List of people legally executed in ...
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