During the 18th and the 19th centuries, the Australia colonies were established for a range of reasons. One was to have a very big place to punishments all the convicts rather staying in the jail In British. Second the British try to let all other people to have a new life in a new country. The last reason was the gold rush, in the early 19th century which attract most of the men around the world and also a small amount of women to come to Australia in hope to discovered or find gold.
Many people came to Australia for many reasons. Some of people travel to Australia for a better life but most of them travel to Australia because of the gold rush. Everyone try to have a better. Other half of people come to Australia as a convicts. But the main
on primary production, especially it's wool industry and it's exports. Britain was it's main export market for wool and foreign investments. During the end of Victoria's reign, Australia had one of the highest standards of living in the world. Victoria represented Britain, so the appreciation of the advantages which Britain gave Australia, was diverted to her.
As time progressed, colonists began to identify as Australian rather that British. During the time of federation over 80% of the population were Australian born. There were people
Penal colonies are places when some send their inmates to be exiled. It was said that about 160,000 people were brought into Australia. Many Europeans decided to immigrate to Australia and because of this and after a while the economy and colonies of Australia, under the British rule, started to grow (Austrailian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).
With the already little population of 5 million Australian people and the loss of 300,000 men, this should have been a dark time, but to make up on that loss Australia received 300,000 migrants. These Migrants came from Britain. As there was a large amount of unemployment the British government encouraged the people of britain to migrate to Australia. Also the
Australia was in a time of crisis during World War 2 (1945) when they were threatened by the Japanese invasions. Australia did not have a big population at that time resulting in not have a strong defence to protect Australia. The Department of Immigration that was created then strongly urged that Australia needed an increase in its population by at least 1% each year. They needed a plan to gain a huge population; they needed to populate or perish!
The Gold Rush made Australia largely colonised and continually expanding. In 1852, 370,000 immigrants arrived in Australia from many different countries. The economy boomed and many different cultures were introduced. Countries like England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, America, China and Germany showed up as the majority of diggers on the Australian census. The population continued to grow
As as result of the relocation of people from England to Australia, it turned Australia into the land of opportunity and made for a better world. It benefited England and the world for many reasons such as securing trade routes with China. The movement of the convicts also spread fear among english society deterring crime. Furthermore, some of the convicts were fortunate enough to the opportunity to live and potentially earn their freedom. Crime rates rose and England's jails become overcrowded with prisoners they resorted to using prison hulks as temporary, makeshift confinements on the river Thames eventually leading to the penal transportation to Australia.
Within the 1600s the dutch were the first europeans to reach australia, although in 1770 James Cook claimed australia for britain. Australia still had been distant, forty thousand years ago the first settlers had probably been citizens from southeast asia. But it was known that the first years of settlement were nearly disastrous. Supposedly the land had been cursed with spoiled soil, unfamiliar climate,
When asked questions about things we have never experienced before it is hard to give a proper answer, all you can do is assume and imagine but you can never give an exact precise response. So when asked if Australia was a Fatal shore for everyone or if it was a land of opportunity, all you can do is assume and imagine based on the available information provided because you don’t really know the answer because you have not experienced it firsthand. From the information provided, Australia was more of a Fatal Shore than it was a land of opportunity. For both convicts and free settlers life in Australia was extremely harsh. The lifestyle of Australia was extremely different to the environment that they were used to back home in England and it would have been hard for them to adapt to. However life in Australia wasn’t all that bad, for most of the convicts it was a second chance at life and for the free settlers it was a great opportunity to make their fortune.
Australia is a diverse and multicultural that allows anyone who needs safety and shelter to come to Australia and feel safe and free. Australia wasn’t always like this there was a time where immigrants could not come into the “Safe Haven”. To get away from poverty, war and diseases.
Australia was a rapidly changing country during the time of 1918-1955. Having just got out of the first world war to suffering the drastic affects from the great depression before spiralling into the second world war. And then being drawn into the Vietnam war. The country was changing both economically as well as socially and politically. New ways and styles of life came into Australia as they became a modernised country as it is today.
Before the first world war began, Australia was colonised by the Europeans. Accordingly since no treaties were made between the native Australians and Europeans they were not given any recognition for their own rights. They were even simply exempted from things such as the military for being dark skinned. World War One was most importantly seen as a crucial development for these people.
A better way of protecting Australia was to have a better "defensive" country. Prior to federation the colonies struggled to defend themselves without the equipment needed. Each colony had its own military, however they relied on British forces to assist them with patrolling the vast Australian coastline. Different Australian colonies were highly afraid of different nations such as Germany, France and Russia. The colonies were also afraid of Asian countries, as they were very close to Australia. These countries were mostly China and Japan, who had big military backgrounds.
Australians had an immense amount of pride for their country and among those popular beliefs were that the British Empire was superior to other races. Most of the Australian population was English descendant. Australia
The Australian Aborigines were the original occupants of Australia but like most continents western settlers came for the opportunity of new land. Due to the colonialism in 1788, when European settlement in Australia began as banished prisoners, Australia’s white population was about 400,000. Today, over 20 million white Australians occupy the continent. Out of those 20 million Australians, only 2.5% of the population are Australian Aborigines. With the discovery of gold just outside Bathurst in 1851, the nature of Australian migration changed completely.