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Vor 2 Tagen · Mary MacKillop, who co-founded an order of nuns in the 19th century, called the Sisters of St. Joseph, became the first Australian to be canonised as a Catholic Saint in 2010, and Sir Douglas Nicholls, a preacher and Aboriginal rights activist was the first Indigenous Australian to be appointed Governor of an Australian State.
Vor einem Tag · At the same time, Australia was becoming attractive to Britain’s relatively wealthy. After the crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813, huge land tracts became available in NSW, the wool industry thrived and wealthy migrants could hope to join the colonial upper classes. The 19th century was a period of mass emigration from Europe. Between ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Survey of the history, society, and culture of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, who are one of the two distinct Indigenous cultural groups of Australia. It is generally held that they originally came from Asia via insular Southeast Asia and have been in Australia for at least 45,000–50,000 years.
Vor einem Tag · Australia, the continent and the country, may have been quite isolated at the beginning of the 20th century, but it entered the 21st century a culturally
Vor einem Tag · Australien (amtlicher deutscher Name; englisch Commonwealth of Australia, deutsch veraltet Australischer Bund) ist ein Staat auf der Südhalbkugel der Erde, der das Festland des australischen Kontinents, die ihr südlich vorgelagerte Insel Tasmanien, die subantarktische Macquarieinsel mit ihren Nebeninseln und als Außengebiete die pazifische Norfolkinsel, die Kokosinseln, die Weihnachtsinsel ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Nineteenth-Century Australia Then and Now: Remembering Australia’s Past in Neo-Victorian Fiction. The historical novel is a highly popular and critically-significant genre among contemporary Australian novelists and readers alike, with examples dominating bestseller and literary award lists.
Vor einem Tag · I wanted to use the voyages of emigrants and convicts who sailed to Australia in the first half of the 19th century to go beyond a sanitary emphasis on progress in maritime history. By bringing a whole range of historical factors together – including penal developments, environmental knowledge, medical practice, migrants ...
