The document provides information about the history and culture of indigenous Australians and the colonization of Australia by Europeans. It notes that Aboriginals were the original inhabitants of Australia and lived as hunter-gatherers. It describes traditional Aboriginal instruments like the didgeridoo and games like Marn Grook. It then outlines the colonization of Australia, with Captain Cook claiming New South Wales and establishing the first penal colony led by Arthur Phillip in Sydney Cove. The colonists struggled at first until supplies arrived and settlers learned to live off the land. Explorers like Gregory Blaxland helped open up the interior of Australia to new colonies. By the late 1800s, Australia had become a federation of six states under the rule of England

1. AUSTRALIA

2. • Aborigines – the name the Europeans called
the Australians.
• Means original

4. Life and Culture
• One of the most isolated groups of people in
the world
• Hunter and gatherers

5. Didgeridoo
• Made of pieces of eucalyptus wood
• Used as part of their worship

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

11. Arthur Phillip

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

15. • Great Dividing Range – kept colonists living
along the coasts
• Settlers soon learned how to live entirely off
the land

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

19. Gregory Blaxland

21. • Sheep farmers found colony of Victoria named
after Queen Victoria of England

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