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Target Australia Pty Ltd (formerly Lindsay's and Lindsay's Target, formerly stylised as Target. and doing business as Target and Target Australia) is a department store chain owned by Australian retail conglomerate Wesfarmers. Target stocks clothing, cosmetics, homewares, electronics, books, and toys selling both in-store and online. [3]
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.
1972 - Australia recognises the People's Republic of China; 1973 - The Sydney Opera House is opened; 1973 - The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18; 1973 - Unionists save the historic "The Rocks" area of Sydney from demolition by introducing "Green Bans" 1973 - Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
The history of Australia from 1901 to 1945 begins with the federation of the six colonies to create the Commonwealth of Australia. The young nation joined Britain in the First World War, suffered through the Great Depression in Australia as part of the global Great Depression and again joined Britain in the Second World War against Nazi Germany in 1939.
The History of Australian Exploration - Timeline by Ernest Favenc Australia Twice Traversed, by Ernest Giles 1824 Hobbs voyage of 1824 James Hobbs circumnavigated Tasmania and searched for locatations for ports, rivers, and land suitable for settlement and to report on a proposed breakwater at Macquarie Harbour resources - James Hobbs bio page
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 .
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A white Australia also meant the exclusion of cheap Asian labour, an idea strongly promoted by the labour movement. [57] According to historian John Hirst, "Federation was not needed to make the White Australia policy, but that policy was the most popular expression of the national ideal that inspired federation." [58]