MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIA’S HISTORY

A SET OF 17 SLIDES ABOUT SOME OF THE BIG THEMES GLENN MARTIN, OCTOBER 2016

“TERRA AUSTRALE”THE GREAT UNKNOWN SOUTHERN LANDTHEVENOT’S MAP, 1644

CAPTAIN COOK CLAIMING POSSESSION OF AUSTRALIA, 1770

MODERN AUSTRALIA BEGINS AS A CONVICT COLONY

EARLY ENCOUNTERS WITH ABORIGINES

SYDNEY COVE, ABOUT 1810

COLONIES ARE ESTABLISHED AT PORT PHILLIP BAY, HOBART TOWN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, SWAN RIVER, MORETON BAY.GOLD IS DISCOVERED.

EXPLORERS EXPAND THE REACH OF THE COLONIES

Building the road over the

Blue Mountains

PIONEERS, SQUATTERS, SETTLERS TAKE CONTROL OF THE LAND FOR FARMING

SETTLERS COME INTO CONFLICT WITH ABORIGINES

THE COLONIES CONTINUE TO GROW AND PROSPER

George Street, Sydney, 1906

AUSTRALIANS BECOME IMPATIENT WITH BRITISH RULE AND BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT SELF-GOVERNMENT

Australian Federation Conference, Melbourne,

1890

THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA IS FORMED IN 1901 AS A FEDERATION OF THE STATES

AUSTRALIA SEARCHES FOR A SENSE OF IDENTITY

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Gallipoli, 1915

IN THE 20TH CENTURY, AUSTRALIANS HAD TO RETHINK WHO THEY WERE, MANY TIMES OVERAttitudes towards:• people who are not Anglo-Saxon – Europeans,

southern Europeans (eg Italians, Greeks), Asians • people who have different

religions• Aborigines• women

SOME THINGS CHANGED FOR ABORIGINES

Vincent Lingiari with Gough Whitlam, 1975 Eddie Mabo, Native Title, 1992

BUT IT’S NOT OVER YET

The big questions remain:• Who are “we” in the world?• How do we make peace with our past?• How do we accept and include others?• What kind of people are we?• How do we look after this land?