The fertile eastern fringe and the bottom corner of Western Australia could have attracted the mercantile Dutch to stay permanently; the tropical Top End was a natural home for maritime traders from what we now call Indonesia and New Guinea; and the arid centre would have remained home to Indigenous communities who ...
Two possibilities: It would be in the same state as it was when “discovered” by Cook. Scattered groups of hunter-gatherers living a nomadic life in their traditional areas. It would be a huge landmass colonized by Indonesian people - the biggest Muslim country by area.
If Europeans never colonized and invaded America, the native nations and tribes would continue to interact in trade. What we see as the new world would be extremely diverse and the groups which live on the continent would become well-known peoples in the old world.
British imperialism exported a vast amount of capital to its colonies in Australia which was invested largely in land, banking, insurance and other finance institutions. Some British capital was invested in industry. But until World War I there was not a great development of industry in Australia.
The usual explanation is that with the American colonies revolting in 1776, Britain had been deprived of its outlet for the criminals that were overfilling its goals, and so Australia was chosen as the new location for its overseas prison.
The British Union Jack features predominantly on our national flag and the Queen is Australia's Head of State. British models also form the basis of Australia's legal and political systems, as well providing our national language. Up until World War II, Britain remained the dominating cultural influence in Australia.
Widespread empathy for Great Britain's cause
Large sections of the Australian community felt loyal to Britain when the war was declared. More than 90% of migrants to Australia in the 8 years before 1914 were from the United Kingdom. Many Australians still called England 'the mother country'.
Since the colonisation of Australia by European settlers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have experienced extreme hardships, ranging from the loss of traditional culture and homelands to the forced removal of children and denial of citizenship rights.
The reasons that led the British to invade Australia were simple. The prisons in Britain had become unbearably overcrowded, a situation worsened by the refusal of America to take any more convicts after the American War of Independence in 1783.
Indigenous people suffered a lot of injustices, such as being evicted from their traditional territories and being relocated to reserves and missions. They were also subjected to mass killings, and for those who survived, European colonists denied their customs and traditions.
Some of the negative impacts that are associated with colonization include; degradation of natural resources, capitalist, urbanization, introduction of foreign diseases to livestock and humans. Change of the social systems of living.
Some outcomes that former colonies are left to deal with today are poor treatment of indigenous populations, income and wealth inequality, weak governmental infrastructure, and religious conflicts.
By establishing colonies on nearby planets, humans can get access to these resource-rich asteroids, allowing them to support both their colonies and Earth itself. Abundant resources may also be found on the colonized planets.
Prior to British settlement, more than 500 First Nations groups inhabited the continent we now call Australia, approximately 750,000 people in total. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures developed over 60,000 years, making First Nations Peoples the custodians of the world's oldest living culture.
Between 11,000 and 14,000 Aboriginal people died, compared with only 399 to 440 colonisers. The tallies of the dead are not the only measure of what took place, according to Dr Bill Pascoe, a digital humanities specialist and key researcher on the project. “We are always using conservative estimates,” Pascoe said.
Indigenous people resisted British settlement, both physically and psychologically. Aboriginal resistance to British occupation was immediate. Pemulwuy led counter-raids against settlers and ambushed exploration and foraging parties between 1790 and 1802.
While Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years, and traded with nearby islanders, the first documented landing on Australia by a European was in 1606. The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon landed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula and charted about 300 km of coastline.
After Dutch navigators charted the northern, western and southern coasts of Australia during the 17th Century this newly found continent became known as 'New Holland'.
Australia is an important exporter of agricultural goods like wool, wheat, beef, fruit, and wine. The country is also rich in minerals and metals and is the world's fourth largest producer of gold.
Initial changes with colonisation
As settlements expanded and settlers moved out to begin farming, eventually most Aboriginal people were moved off their land. In addition, there were significant impacts from land clearing and hard-hooved animals which altered plant communities and favoured introduced exotic grasses11.
Abstract. Settler colonialism continues in Australia today. One way this occurs is through processes of assimilation such as targeting First Nations subjectivities with behavioural conditions on their social security payments.
In the 1860s, Victoria became the first state to pass laws authorising Aboriginal children to be removed from their parents. Similar policies were later adopted by other states and territories – and by the federal government when it was established in the 1900s.
As far as the Australian War Memorial is concerned Captain Brian Pockley and Able Seaman William Williams, who were killed in September 1914, are the first Australians to have died in the Great War.
Its casualties from enemy action during the war were 27,073 killed and 23,477 wounded. Many more suffered from tropical disease, hunger, and harsh conditions in captivity; of the 21,467 Australian prisoners taken by the Japanese, only 14,000 survived.
The Roll of Honour records the number of Australian deaths during the First World War as 61,514. This includes deaths until the formal disbandment of the AIF on 31 March 1921. During the period 4 August 1914 to 11 November 1918, there were 59,357 deaths.