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The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 2: 1770–1860 Possessions (1995) Lowe, David. Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948–54 (1999) online edition; Macintyre, Stuart. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age (1993) Macintyre, Stuart. A Concise History of Australia (2004) excerpt ...
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The Historical Records of Australia (HRA) were collected and published by the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, to create a series of accurate publications on the history of Australia. The records begin shortly before 1788, the year that the first British settlement was established in Australia (at Port Jackson).
In the first two volumes of his History of Australia (1962, 1968) Manning Clark developed an idiosyncratic interpretation of Australian history telling the story of "epic tragedy" in which "the explorers, Governors, improvers, and perturbators vainly endeavoured to impose their received schemes of redemption on an alien, intractable setting". [5]
No. XXXVIII.—The Australian Journal of William Strutt, A.R.A., 1850-1862. (In two parts.) 30 December 1958. Limited to one hundred and thirty-five copies for sale and fifteen for presentation. No. XXXIX.—The History of the Island of Van Diemen’s Land, from the year 1824 to 1835 inclusive. By Henry Melville. Hobart Town. 15 November 1959.
The Oxford Companion to Australian History (ISBN 9780195515039) is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press, its first edition dated 1998. It contains an alphabetically arranged set of articles on Australian subjects: notable persons, historic events and topics of general interest, ranging in length from ...
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