A Short History of Nearly Everything. In Australia.

Greetings to all again. (:

From what we have sourced from the Internet, the history of Australia began when people started to migrate to the northern part of Australia approximately 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Australia was first sighted in the 17th century by the Europeans, which is probably why present-day Australia is inhabited by a large proportion of white people.

The pioneer immigrants to Australia settled themselves at the northern part of the continent and nearby islands, and they were the Indigenious Australians, or more commonly known as the Aborigines. About 2.4% of Australia's total population is made up of these people. They led fairly normal lives, which was disrupted very suddenly by the colonization of the British. Racism took place, as the white people believed themselves to be superior over the Aborigines in many ways. They also believed that the Aborigines were 'unclean', and devised many methods of wiping them out. This included violence, confiscation of land, disease outbreaks and poisoning of food and water, which reduced the total Aborigine population by about 90% over a century.

Also, as seen from the video 'Rabbit-Proof Fence', Aborigine children were removed from their families by the Europeans. This also constituted to the genocide of Aborigines.

Erm, sorry if this piece of information is really dry and boring and everything (because it kinds of reminds us of Mr Yang here and his SS lectures =X). My group and I will try to find another piece of interesting fact or figure about Australia sometime soon. Apologies again. Peace out.

(Oh, I almost forgot. Most of the imformation here is found from Wikipedia. Phew, nearly got penalised for plagiarism. (:)

Sharon
Xin Yue
Hsien Liang
Kelvin
Sheng Chow