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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
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About 30,000 years ago
Earliest known rock art
About 20,000 years ago
Earliest evidence of the boomerang
1700
Trade with the Makasar
1770
Cook claims Australia
1788
The First Fleet arrives at Sydney Cove
1792
Pemulwuy resists the colonists
1813
Europeans cross the Blue Mountains
1815
Founding of Bathurst
1833
Convict transportation peaks
1860
Burke and Wills cross the continent
1879
Australia’s first national park
1968
Mungo Lady found