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  2. European exploration of Australia - Wikipedia

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    South Australia was founded as a "free province"—it was never a penal colony. [33] Victoria and Western Australia were also founded "free", but later accepted transported convicts. [34] [35] A campaign by the settlers of New South Wales led to the end of convict transportation to that colony; the last convict ship arrived in 1848. [36]

  3. Immigration to Australia - Wikipedia

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    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. [13] The South Australia Company was established to encourage settlement in South Australia by labourers and skilled migrants.

  4. Immigration history of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The immigration history of Australia began with the initial human migration to the continent around 80,000 years ago [1] when the ancestors of Aboriginal Australians arrived on the continent via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea. [2]

  5. European Australians - Wikipedia

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    European Australians are citizens or residents of Australia whose ancestry originates from the peoples of Europe.They form the largest panethnic group in the country. [7] At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within European ancestral groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to more than 57.2% (46% North-West European and 11.2% Southern and Eastern ...

  6. European land exploration of Australia - Wikipedia

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    This 1830 map of Australia depicts a 'Great River' and a 'Supposed Sea' that both proved nonexistent. Route of the Sturt , Hume and Hovell expeditions After the Great Dividing Range had been crossed at numerous points and many rivers were discovered—the Darling, Macquarie, Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers—all of which flowed west, a theory ...

  7. Australian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The Australian diaspora are those Australians living outside of Australia. It includes approximately 598,765 Australian-born people living outside of Australia, [ 1 ] people who are Australian citizens and live outside Australia, and people with Australian ancestry who live outside of Australia.

  8. History of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The history of Australia is the history of ... the first European to map the eastern coastline of Australia in ... Immigrants als poured in from Britain, Europe, the ...

  9. Austrian Australians - Wikipedia

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    Austrian Australians are Australian citizens of Austrian national origin or ancestry, or a permanent residents of Australia who have migrated from Austria. There are thousands of Austrian Australians, with many tracing their history to ancestors who arrived in the gold rush during the 1850s.