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  More info about: Documenting a Democracy
  Documenting a Democracy
The story of Australia. 1600s - Explorers from Europe, such as Luis Vaez de Torres, Abel Tasman, Willem de Vlamingh and William Dampier record and name parts of the coast...
         
  More info about: Abel Tasman, Tasmania and New Zealand
  Abel Tasman, Tasmania and New Zealand
Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer and explorer best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644, in the service of the VOC (Dutch East India Company). His was the firs...
         
  More info about: Willem Janszoon finds Australia, Duyfken
  Willem Janszoon finds Australia, Duyfken
In 1606, the small Dutch ship Duyfken sailed from the Indonesian island of Banda in search of gold and trade opportunities on the fabled island of Nova Guinea. Under the...
         
  More info about: George Vancouver
  George Vancouver
An English navigator and explorer, Vancouver sailed on Capt. James Cook's 2nd and 3rd voyages. In 1791, he set out for the NW coast of America. He rounded the Cape of Goo...
         
  More info about: Freemasonry in Australia and the SW Pacific
  Freemasonry in Australia and the SW Pacific
Chronology and development of Freemasonry in Australia and New Zealand from 1770 to 1848...
         
  More info about: Robert Brown, British Botanist
  Robert Brown, British Botanist
Robert Brown, Scottish botanist and botanical explorer. In 1801 he went as a naturalist on one of Matthew Flinders's expeditions to Australia, returning (1805) to England...
         
  More info about: Short History of Freemasonry in South Australia & Northern Territory
  Short History of Freemasonry in South Australia & Northern Territory
Narrative history of the development of Freemasonry in South Australia and Northern Territory and of the Grand Lodge...
         
  More info about: First ten years of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship
  First ten years of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship
Events of the first ten years of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship...
         
  More info about: Ned Kelly, Australian Folk Hero
  Ned Kelly, Australian Folk Hero
Ned Kelley is Australia's most famous bushranger and, to many, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. From the age of fourteen, Ned began committing a...
         
  More info about: Historical Timeline Australia
  Historical Timeline Australia
1901 Australia’s population is 1, 795, 873. 1903 Women vote for the Australian Parliament, and three women stand for election. 1911 Douglas Mawson, Australian explorer an...
         
  More info about: Julius Sumner Miller, Professor
  Julius Sumner Miller, Professor
For over two decades, the enigmatic and slightly mad Professor Julius Sumner Miller captivated and amazed audiences on Australian TV with demonstrations of physical scien...
         
  More info about: Rupert Murdoch, Publisher
  Rupert Murdoch, Publisher
Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch established News Corporation as a holding company in 1980; it has since developed into a worldwide c...
         
       


     




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