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For a brief time between 1926 and 1931, the Northern Territory was divided into North Australia and Central Australia at the 20th parallel south of latitude. [19] Soon after that, under the Kimberley Scheme , parts of the Northern Territory were considered as a possible site for the establishment of a Jewish Homeland , but it was understandably ...
Ideology and Immigration: Australia 1976 to 1987 (1997) Burnley, I.H. The Impact of Immigration in Australia: A Demographic Approach (2001) Foster, William, et al. Immigration and Australia: Myths and Realities (1998) Jupp, James. From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (2007) excerpt and text search; Jupp, James.
The colonies promoted migration by a variety of schemes. The Bounty Immigration Scheme (1835-1841) boosted emigration from the United Kingdom to New South Wales. [14] The South Australia Company was established to encourage settlement in South Australia by labourers and skilled migrants.
Steinberg was a skilled emissary, and based his campaign on the officially declared need by Australia to populate northern Australia. [ 4 ] By early 1940, he won the support of churches, [ 5 ] leading newspapers, many prominent political and public figures (including Western Australian Premier John Willcock ) and a number of Jewish leaders, [ 3 ...
By the early 1980s Aboriginal communities had gained title to about 30 per cent of Northern Territory land and 20 per cent of South Australian land. In 1982, the Queensland government granted Aboriginal reserve land to its occupiers but the grants gave limited rights and was revocable at any time.
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia [8] and informally as the Territory) [a] [9] is an Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South ...
Sheep and cattle runs spread to northern Queensland and on to the Gulf Country of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the 1870s and 1880s. Sugar plantations also expanded in northern Queensland during the same period. [36] [37] The gold discoveries in northern Australia attracted a new wave of Chinese immigrants.
The Northern Territory was split at 20° south into the territories of Central Australia and North Australia. [56] [57] 9 May 1927 Parliament began meeting in Canberra, formally moving the capital there from Melbourne. [58] [59] 12 June 1931 The territories of Central Australia and North Australia were merged to become the Northern Territory ...