Austrailia, again

piss

They fought the emus to a standstill

How did early Australian settlers make their money?

Like America had Tobacco plantations originally and later lots of logging & eventually cotton. Did Australia export produce or did they export minerals like they do today or what.

Sick cunt

>>2155971
What?

>>2155957
There are no such things as Australian history or Australian culture

>>2155978
Explain

>>2155974
fuck up

Australian here

>How did Australia gain its independence?
Two major steps, the 1932 act was de facto independence and the 1986 act was total independence without need for convention from the governor general

>Who were the leaders?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Australia

The parties haven't changed that much actually. The blue parties here merged into the coalition which we call Liberal and Labour is still around.

What are some signifigant events in Austrailian history?

Great emu war, Federation, both world wars and the invention of VB

>>2155988
/Pol/ has more intelligent discussions on History than you fags. This board is a dissapointment

>>2155978
That is where you are wrong. Australian culture is about firing up a nice barby and throwing some prawns on it.

>>2155995
bugger off then we're full anyway

>>2155996
Wrong again. It's about fathering multiple children in Thailand.

>>2155957
Australia was federated as an independent member of the commonwealth (then Empire) by an act of the British Parliament in 1901.
Before that it was a loose collection of colonies sharing the continent.

First settlement was in 1788 in Sydney by transported convicts who nearly starved over the next few years.
The first industry was whaling and sealing.
The east coast and norfolk island and Tasmania were settled slowly over time.
Western Aus and South Aus settled in 1829 and 1836.
The opening up of the plains beyond the Blue Mountains led to the introduction of a large sheep and cattle industry.
1850 gold discovered in NSW followed a year later by larger deposits in Vicoria, Increase in population following Gold rushes.

>>2156011

You might also want to note that areas like Newcastle ran a coal economy from some of the earliest days of settlement and that the entire Hunter region was and has always been a sheep and cattle region.

>>2155992
Why is Visual Basic so important to Australian history? You know, it all compiles to the same shit, so you really could just switch to C#, it's a much better language.