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Defining Moments
Learn about the events, people and ideas that have shaped and defined Australia.
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Indigenous Australia: Australia as a nation: Sport: Women
Indigenous life before Europeans
Indigenous: Colonial
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Making a nation
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Sport
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1797
Merino sheep introduced
1833
Convict transportation peaks
1854
Eureka Stockade
1863
First indentured Islander labourers
1868
Convict transportation ends
1872
Free education introduced
1880
Ned Kelly’s last stand
1894
Women granted the vote in South Australia
1902
Women granted the vote in federal elections
1921
First woman elected to an Australian parliament
1932
Height of the Great Depression
1947
First peacetime signals intelligence organisation
1962
Indigenous Australians granted the right to vote
1966
Wave Hill Walk-Off
1967
Indigenous referendum
1971
First green bans
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