7. Marn Grook
• Game
• Elements of football and soccer
• Played with a ball shaped like a football made
out of possum hide
8. Impact of European Immigration
• They were no match for the weaponry of the
English
• Lost more and more land and rights
• Disease killed many
9. NEW SOUTH WALES
• Claimed by Captain Cook
• Became a place for prisoners and debtors
10. The First Fleet
• First group of these prisoners
• Led by Arthur Phillip
• Called the area he set up Sydney Cove
• The day he landed is celebrated as Australia
Day
12. • Phillip rationed the remaining flour while they
waited for the supply ship
• It struck an iceburg
• Had to survive for two years
13. • Another transport ship arrived with 200
convicts
• Finally a supply ship arrived to save them
14.
15. • Great Dividing Range – kept colonists living
along the coasts
• Settlers soon learned how to live entirely off
the land
16.
17. Gregory Blaxland
• Took three weeks to explore and find a way
through the Great Dividing Range
• On the other side was the outback – remote,
dry region located at the center of the island
• Found new colony of South Australia
21. • Sheep farmers found colony of Victoria named
after Queen Victoria of England
22.
23. • All of the Australian colonies were under the
rule of England
• A gold rush happened in Australia
24. • Australia became the Commonwealth of
Australia
• Made up of 6 states
1. Queensland
2. New South Wales
3. Victoria
4. Tasmania
5. South Australia
6. Western Australia
• The capital was Canberra
Editor's Notes
Men spent time hunting and worshipping the tribal gods
Women gathered food in the day and spend the rest of the day preparing dinner and caring for the children
Claims were on a first come first served basis
Cook was English
When Georgia was no longer an option, England sends people to New South Wales
Of the 1000 passengers, 800 was prisoners/debtors
Traveled eight months
He intended to land early and prepare a small settlement, but they landed two days after him
No skilled laborers among the crew or convicts
Eucalyptus was had and quickly ruined the axes
Built houses from cabbage trees covered with wattle and daub
A ship was spotted…they were saved!
Population went from 400,000 people to over 1 million in 10 years
