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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.
1969 - French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die; the Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney; top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles ...
A Dictionary of Australian Military History – from Colonial Times to the Gulf War (1992) Hearn, Mark, Harry Knowles, and Ian Cambridge. One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994 (1998) Hutton, Drew, and Libby Connors. History of the Australian Environment Movement (1999) excerpt and text search; Kelly, Paul.
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
Timeline of history of environmentalism (630s – present) Weather and environmental disasters. Lists of earthquakes by period; List of tornado events by year; List of wildfires; Life. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life; List of years in birding and ornithology; List of years in paleontology (17th century – present) 2025 in paleontology
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The incumbent Australian Labor Party government led by John Curtin is returned to power. 23 September – Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney become the first women to win seats in the Parliament of Australia. Lyons represents the Tasmanian electorate of Darwin in the House of Representatives, and Tangney is a Senator for Western Australia.
30 June – The Australian government assumes control of Qantas. [5] 1 July – Real estate company L. J. Hooker is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. 5 August – Australia becomes a member of the International Monetary Fund. 30 August – The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration grants workers a 40-hour week.