When Did Australia Become Colonised? Britain’s first contact with Australia came with Captain Cook’s voyage in the ship Endeavour. He landed in Australia in 1770 and claimed it as a British territory. The process of colonisation began in 1788. When did Australia start to get colonized? European settlement. The British government determined on settling New…
Is Australia New Zealand? As you can see then, New Zealand is not physically part of Australia but separated from Australia by the Tasman Sea. The distance between Australia and New Zealand is approximately 1,500km (932 miles) at the closest point between the Australian island state of Tasmania and New Zealand’s South Island. Is New…
Was The Colonisation Of Australia Settlement Or Invasion? From 1788, Australia was treated by the British as a colony of settlement, not of conquest. Aboriginal land was taken over by British colonists on the premise that the land belonged to no-one (‘terra nullius’). Was the colonisation of Australia an invasion? The colonisation of Australia was…
Is Wheat Native To Australia? The first wheat in Australia was sown in Sydney in 1788 not long after the arrival of the First Fleet. Colonists had brought different varieties of grain with them and a small nine-acre farm was established at Farm Cove on the site of the current Royal Botanic Garden to raise…
What Happened In 1962 In Australia? 15 August – The Red Sales aerobatic team, flying Vampire jets, crashes in practice, killing six people. 28 September – Paddington tram depot fire: One fifth of the Brisbane tram fleet is destroyed when the Paddington tram depot is burnt down in suspicious circumstances. 65 trams are destroyed. What…