Length14h 35m
About this audiobook
"A Short History of Australia" is an accurate and informative treatise on Australian history written by an Australian historian and professor of history at the University of Melbourne, Ernest Scott. It is most valuable to the research of the post-settlement years of Sydney, New South Wales, and the other Australian colonies before the establishment of the Federation.
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GenreHistory
Length14 hrs 35 mins
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Publish dateDec 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
22XII. THE FOUNDING OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
2MAP PUBLISHED AT PARIS, 1587
23XIII. SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND THE WAKEFIELD THEORY
3I. THE DAWN OF DISCOVERY
24XIV. THE PORT PHILLIP DISTRICT
4PLANCIUS'S MAP (AMSTERDAM), 1594
25XV. FROM VAN DIEMEN'S LAND TO TASMANIA
5HONDIUS'S MAP, 1595
26XVI. THE LAND AND THE SQUATTERS
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6MAP OF JAVE LA GRANDE, 1542
27XVII. THE END OF CONVICTISM
7II. THE DUTCH AND NEW HOLLAND
28XIX. GOLD
8MAP ILLUSTRATING FIRST DUTCH DISCOVERIES
29XX. THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT
9MAP ILLUSTRATING VOYAGE OF VAN NECK'S FLEET TO DUTCH EAST INDIES 1598-1600
30XXI. QUEENSLAND
10MAP OF NEW HOLLAND
31XXII. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
11TASMAN'S VOYAGES
32XXIII. DEMOCRACY AT WORK--(a) GOVERNMENT
12III. DAMPIER AND COOK
33XXIV. DEMOCRACY AT WORK--(b) LAND, LABOUR, AND THE POPULAR WELFARE
13PORTION OF COOK'S CHART OF NEW SOUTH WALES
34XXV. PAPUA AND THE PACIFIC
14NEW HOLLAND AND NEW SOUTH WALES AS KNOWN AFTER COOK'S VOYAGES
35XXVI. THE MOVEMENT TOWARDS FEDERATION
15IV. THE FOUNDATION OF Sydney
36XXVIII. THE COMMONWEALTH--(a) PARTIES AND PERSONALITIES
16V. THE CONVICT SYSTEM
37XXIX. THE COMMONWEALTH--(b) THE WHEELS OF POLICY
17VI. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNORS
38XXX. AUSTRALIA IN THE GREAT WAR
18VII FURTHER EXPLORATIONS
39XXXI. FROM THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR
19VIII. THE EXTENSION OF SETTLEMENT
40EPILOGUE
20X. THE DAWN OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
41BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
21XI. THE PROBLEM OF THE RIVERS
42APPENDIX
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