Wednesday 17 February 2016

HISTORY OF COUNTRY AUSTRALIA

Trust aborigines would a timeless continent
Aboriginal people in Australia are expected to arrive here by boat from South East Asia during the last Ice Age, at least 50,000 years ago. In the exploration and bermukimnya Europeans, approximately one million Aboriginal people have lived on this continent as hunters and gatherers. They were scattered in 300 clans and spoke 250 languages ​​and 700 dialects. Each clan has a certain spiritual connection with the land, but also ventured far to trade, find water and seasonal produce, as well as to hold a ritual and meeting totemik.

Though their homeland is very diverse - from outback deserts and tropical rainforests to the snowy mountains - all Aboriginal people have the same beliefs about the "Dreamtime" or "The Dream", a magical realm that is eternal. According to Aboriginal myth, totemic spirit ancestors shaping all aspects of life when Impian Masa creation of the world. These spirit ancestors continue to connect natural phenomena, as well as past, present and future, through all aspects of Aboriginal culture.

England came and took the prisoners
A number of European explorers sailed the coast of Australia, formerly known as New Holland, in the 17th century. However, only in 1770 Captain James Cook charted the east coast and claimed it for Britain. The new area is used as a penal colony, and on January 26, 1788, the first fleet of 11 ships carrying 1,500 people (half of them prisoners) arrived in Port Sydney. Until this inmate carriage ended in 1868, 160,000 men and women have come to Australia as convicts.

Free settlers began to arrive since the early 1790s, but on the other hand the lives of prisoners is very heavy. The number of men five times the number of women, and women have always lived in a state threatened sexual exploitation. The man who broke the law lashed back with brutal and petty crime such as theft can be exposed to death by hanging. Aboriginal people displaced by the new settlement is even more miserable. Loss of land and illness and death from the disease that brought this stranger and disturbing practice of their traditional lifestyle.

Squatters spread throughout the continent
In the 1820s, many soldiers, officers and prisoners who have been free to change the land they received from the government into fertile farm fields. News about the cheap land and abundant jobs in Australia cause shiploads of immigrants arriving from British adventurer. The settlers, or more precisely 'squatters' move deeper into Aboriginal region - often with a gun - to search for pasture and water for their livestock.

In 1825, a group of soldiers and convicts settled in the tribal areas Yuggera, near Brisbane today. Perth inhabited by respectable British citizen in 1829, and in 1835 a group of squatter sailed to Port Phillip Bay and chose the location for Melbourne. At the same time, a UK private company, which prides itself because there is no connection with the prisoners, founded the city of Adelaide in South Australia.

Gold fever brings wealth, migrants and rebellion
Gold was discovered in New South Wales and central Victoria in 1851, and attracts thousands of young men (and also young women who are adventurous) from colonies here. They were followed by the shiploads of gold seekers from China, and also all kinds of artists, bar owners, sellers of alcohol dark, female entertainer and fraudsters from all over the world. In Victoria, the British governor's efforts to enforce the order - a monthly licensing and action forces are hard - resulting in bloody anti-authoritarian uprising (known as the Eureka Stockade uprising) in 1854. Although much of the violence in the gold mines, the wealth from gold and wool brought major investment to Melbourne and Sydney, and in the 1880s the city has been a modern city full of style.

Australia became a nation
Six states of Australia became a nation under a single constitution on 1 January 1901. One of the first actions the new national parliament are issued legislation, which became known as the White Australia Policy (White Australia Policy), which limits the migration only for those coming from Europe. But this has been largely abandoned after the Second World War, and now Australia has been home to people from more than 200 countries.

Australian people go to war
The First World War had a heavy impact for Australia. In 1914, there were less than 3 million men, but nearly 400,000 thereof voluntarily engage in battle. About 60,000 killed and tens of thousands wounded. In reaction to this grief, in the 1920s berkobarlah passion for new cars, cinema, jazz and American-style films and enthusiasm towards the British Empire. When the Great Depression hit in 1929, social and economic inequalities are widespread and many Australian financial institutions are falling. Exercise becomes "solace" national and sporting heroes such as the racehorse Phar Lap and cricketer Donald Bradman gets almost godlike status.

During the Second World War, Australian forces made a major contribution to the Allied victory in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. The generation that fought in the war and survived came back with a pride in the ability of Australia.

The arrival of new residents Australia until the post-war era of rapid progress
After the war ended in 1945, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over Europe and the Middle East came to Australia, and many who got jobs in the manufacturing sector is growing rapidly. Many of the women who worked in factories while the men go to war to keep working during this peacetime.

Australia's economy grew throughout the 1950s, with a variety of major construction projects such as Hydroelectric Power Scheme Snowy Mountains, in the mountains near Canberra. International demand for Australia's main exports such as metals, wool, meat and wheat is also growing, so that suburban Australia also prospered. The level of home ownership grew dramatically, from just 40 percent in 1947 to more than 70 percent in the 1960s.

Australia increasingly relaxed
Like many other countries, Australia also swept the atmosphere of revolution in the 1960s. New ethnic diversity in Australia, increasing independence from Britain, and public opposition to the Vietnam War, all contributes to an atmosphere of political change, economic and social. In 1967, most of the Australian people choose 'yes' in a national referendum to give the mandate for the federal government to legislate on behalf of the Australian Aboriginal people and involving them in the upcoming census. The result was the culmination of a strong reform campaign, both from the Aboriginal and white Australians.

In 1972, the Australian Labor Party under the leadership of Gough Whitlam idealistic lawyer succeeded in power, ending the domination of post-war coalition of the Liberal Party and the State Party. Over the next three years, the new government put an end to compulsory military service, removing the cost of university and launched a free health care is universal. The government also remove the White Australia policy, implementing multicultural policies, and introduce divorce "no one" and equal pay for women. However, in 1975, inflation and scandal led to the Governor General to dissolve the government. In the subsequent election, the Labor Party suffered a major defeat and the Liberal-National Coalition managed to rule until 1983.

Since the 1970s
Between 1983 and 1996, the Labour government introduced a number of Hawke-Keating economic reforms, such as deregulation of the banking system and create a floating system for the Australian dollar. In 1996, the Coalition Government led by John Howard won the election, and was re-elected in 1998, 2001 and 2004. The Liberal-National Coalition government set several reforms, including changes in taxation and industrial relations. In 2007, the Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd was elected with an agenda to reform the industrial relations system, climate change policies as well as the health and education sectors of Australia.

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