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no the was painted near fort gray while Sturt went on and when he returned they left the boat there [west of tibooburra]Manpa said:
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ickshovel:Or was this the reason:
The river was called Birrarung by the Wurundjeri people who occupied the Yarra Valley and much of Central Victoria prior to European colonisation. ... The name Yarra Yarra is said to mean "ever flowing river", but most likely refers to the Yarra Yarra falls which were later dynamited.
Or this:
Birrarung is the Wurundjeri name for the waterway, but Yarra is also an indigenous word meaning 'waterfall' or 'ever flowing'. ... The river is believed to have got its current name after an Englishman mistakenly believed Yarra Yarra was its Aboriginal name.24 Oct 2019
Or maybe this:
Before the arrival of Europeans, the people of the Kulin Nation would meet regularly near the river for ceremonies, inter-Kulin business and politics. Complex protocols surrounded access to territory and resources, none of which early Europeans understood.
The Kulin saw the land and the people as one continuum. Wurundjeri people called their river Birrarung, meaning river of mists, and it was central to their livelihood, their cultural life and their identity. They took their name from one of the trees that grew along the river wurun or manna gum, and djeri, a grub found in or near the tree. Colonists called the Wurundjeri the Yarra Tribe.
The river was called Birrarung by the Wurundjeri people who occupied the Yarra Valley and much of Central Victoria prior to European colonisation. ... The name Yarra Yarra is said to mean "ever flowing river", but most likely refers to the Yarra Yarra falls which were later dynamited.
Or this:
Birrarung is the Wurundjeri name for the waterway, but Yarra is also an indigenous word meaning 'waterfall' or 'ever flowing'. ... The river is believed to have got its current name after an Englishman mistakenly believed Yarra Yarra was its Aboriginal name.24 Oct 2019
Or maybe this:
Before the arrival of Europeans, the people of the Kulin Nation would meet regularly near the river for ceremonies, inter-Kulin business and politics. Complex protocols surrounded access to territory and resources, none of which early Europeans understood.
The Kulin saw the land and the people as one continuum. Wurundjeri people called their river Birrarung, meaning river of mists, and it was central to their livelihood, their cultural life and their identity. They took their name from one of the trees that grew along the river wurun or manna gum, and djeri, a grub found in or near the tree. Colonists called the Wurundjeri the Yarra Tribe.
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Eureka Stockade, fortunately a short deadly altercation that did bring loss of life and a change in politics?
Maybe a member can bring forward accurate details?
Maybe a member can bring forward accurate details?
Here is some Australian History for those who think they know it all but don't.
1606-02-26 First known European landing in Australia by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon at the Pennefather River, Cape York, northern Australia
1697-02-04 Three Dutch East India Company ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1770-04-28 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1770-06-11 Captain James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1770-08-22 James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
1788-01-18 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony
1788-01-26 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day. Referred to as Invasion Day by some First Nations people.
1804-03-04 The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.
1808-01-26 Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia
1813-05-11 In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1813-05-31 In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains
1815-05-24 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1829-04-25 Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom
1829-05-02 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia
1834-03-18 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union
1834-10-28 The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1835-08-30 Melbourne, Australia is founded
1836-07-27 The ship the "Duke of York" arrives with the first colonists at Nepean Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
1836-12-17 Colonel William Light chooses the site for the settlement of Adelaide in South Australia
1836-12-28 Proclamation of South Australia as a British Province. Formal proclamation was read out near The Old Gum Tree, in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North, by Captain (later Rear Admiral, Governor, Sir) John Hindmarsh
1837-11-21 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1838-01-01 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1838-06-10 Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered
1845-12-17 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Port Essington after a nearly 4,800 km (3,000 mi) overland journey to explore Australia's Northern Territory
1846-03-25 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Sydney to a hero's welcome after completing his exploration of Australia's Northern Territory
1847-05-24 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is awarded the Patron's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, London in recognition of 'the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey
1848-04-03 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River in Australia
1850-07-07 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, Western Australia
1851-08-22 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1852-10-11 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1854-12-03 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
Ther is plenty more .
You can check it out here:
https://www.onthisday.com/countries/australia
1606-02-26 First known European landing in Australia by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon at the Pennefather River, Cape York, northern Australia
1697-02-04 Three Dutch East India Company ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1770-04-28 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1770-06-11 Captain James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1770-08-22 James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
1788-01-18 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony
1788-01-26 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day. Referred to as Invasion Day by some First Nations people.
1804-03-04 The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.
1808-01-26 Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia
1813-05-11 In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1813-05-31 In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains
1815-05-24 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1829-04-25 Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom
1829-05-02 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia
1834-03-18 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union
1834-10-28 The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1835-08-30 Melbourne, Australia is founded
1836-07-27 The ship the "Duke of York" arrives with the first colonists at Nepean Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
1836-12-17 Colonel William Light chooses the site for the settlement of Adelaide in South Australia
1836-12-28 Proclamation of South Australia as a British Province. Formal proclamation was read out near The Old Gum Tree, in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North, by Captain (later Rear Admiral, Governor, Sir) John Hindmarsh
1837-11-21 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1838-01-01 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1838-06-10 Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered
1845-12-17 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Port Essington after a nearly 4,800 km (3,000 mi) overland journey to explore Australia's Northern Territory
1846-03-25 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Sydney to a hero's welcome after completing his exploration of Australia's Northern Territory
1847-05-24 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is awarded the Patron's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, London in recognition of 'the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey
1848-04-03 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River in Australia
1850-07-07 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, Western Australia
1851-08-22 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1852-10-11 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1854-12-03 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
Ther is plenty more .
You can check it out here:
https://www.onthisday.com/countries/australia
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Really interesting information, one thing that is evident is how fast all this history happened and how fast Australia came about
and the current ruling couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery :lol:
and the current ruling couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery :lol:
That is an interesting summary
1642 Abel Tasman reaches Tasmania.
And I think these guys beat the Europeans by 47,000 years or so - but they walked herelayful: :
It is not clear when Macassan traders got here, but not later than the early 1600s, perhaps much earlier:
1642 Abel Tasman reaches Tasmania.
And I think these guys beat the Europeans by 47,000 years or so - but they walked here
layful: :
It is not clear when Macassan traders got here, but not later than the early 1600s, perhaps much earlier:
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You might be forgetting William Dampier in 1688
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier
No not forgotten.
1699-08-06 HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, Western Australia on the first British scientific expedition to Australia
A most prolific explorer who in my opinion far out performed Cook
1699-08-06 HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, Western Australia on the first British scientific expedition to Australia
A most prolific explorer who in my opinion far out performed Cook
Thats why we named bush bread after him. layful: layful:
layful: layful:
Manpa said:Thats why we named bush bread after him.
:lol: The "i" was left out to stop it rising.
didn't anyone know how to count back then, it says...
1834-10-28 The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
between 14 and 40? so they haven't got a clue?....... if the truth came out it was probably more like 100's. :awful:
1834-10-28 The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
between 14 and 40? so they haven't got a clue?....... if the truth came out it was probably more like 100's. :awful:
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