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Squatter

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To settle on public land under government regulation, in order to acquire title.

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Terra Nullis

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A Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning 'land belonging to no one'(or 'no mans land'), which is used in international law to describe territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state.

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Autocracy

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Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.

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New world

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Is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere

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Hulk

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A ship specially built to serve as a storehouse, prison, etc., and not for sea service.

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Colony

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A group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.

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Imperialism

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The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.

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Democracy

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Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electral system.

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Suffragette

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Derived from the word 'sufferage', meaning the civil right ot vote. SUffragette is the noun regerring to a female advocate of female suffrage.

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Racism

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A belief or doctrine that inherent differences amoung the various human races determine cultral or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

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Bushranger

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Any of the bandits of the Australian bush, or outback, who harassed the settlers, miners, and Aborigines of the frontier in the late 18th and 19th centuries and whose exploits figure prominentyly in Australian hisotry and folklore (Ben Hall, Mad Dog Morgan, Wild Colonial Boy)

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Universal franchise

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Sufferage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country.

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Indigenous

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Native, original inhabitants.

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Governor

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A person charged with the direction or control of an institution, society, etc.

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Eureka

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Used as an exclamation of triumph at a discovery.

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Federation

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The formation of a political unity, with central government, by a number of seperate states, each of which retains control of its own internal affairs.

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Penal Colony

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A colony set up primarily to receive and contain prisoners from the home country

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Aristocracy

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A group of people who (through wealth or birth) belong to the upper class of a society or civilisation

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First Fleet

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the name given to the 11 ships carrying convicts and British officers that left Britain in 1787 to establish a penal colony in New South Wales.

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Second Fleet

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the name given to the six ships carrying free settlers, convicts and supplies from Britain to the colony of New South Wales that arrived in 1789

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Assisted Migrants

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A person wanting to settle in Australia whose transportation costs were paid by the government in exchange for a set period of unpaid work on arrival

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Abel Tasman

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Dutch explorer who sailed around much of the Australian coast. Named present day Tasmania Van Diemen's land after the Governor of the Dutch East Indies ( modern-day Indonesia)

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Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth

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Three Australian explorers who found a way through the Blue Mountains opening up large areas of inland New South Wales for white settlement.

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Pemulwuy

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Led a resistance movement against early white settlement in the Parramatta region. Governor King outlawed Pemulwuy and offered a reward for his capture dead or alive. King also issued an order that Aborigines could be shot on sight.

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1824

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First convict settlement in Moreton Bay region at present day Redcliffe. A year later the settlement was moved to the banks of the Brisbane River.

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Free settlers

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a person who leaves their homeland by choice to settle in a new country or colony

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1851

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Edward Hargraves discovered gold at Bathurst sparking the Australian Gold Rushes and tripling the population of the colonies.

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1901

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The colonies of WA, SA, NSW, Vict, Tas and Qld federated to form the nation of Australia.

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1859

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Queensland separated from NSW to form its own colony.

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1851

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Colony of Victoria separated from NSW. Unlike NSW, Victoria was first established for free settlers.