Documents that shaped Australia : records of a nation's heritage / John Thompson.

Millers Point, N.S.W. : Pier 9, 2010.

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Australia -- History -- Sources.

Introduction

1516 First report of the Southern Cross

1768 The secret instructions for James Cook

1770 Joseph Banks at Botany Bay

1770 James Cook claims New South Wales for the British Crown

1779 Joseph Banks promotes the idea of a settlement in New South Wales

1783 James Matra's proposal for a settlement

1786 Governor Phillip's first commission

1787 Arthur Phillip on the treatment of convicts in the new colony

1787 Governor Phillip's second commission

1787 Phillip's instructions

1787 New South Wales Courts Act

1787 Charter of Justice

1788 The arrival of the First Fleet

1796 A trio of theatre performances in Sydney

1813 Matthew Flinders writes to Sir Joseph Banks

1814 First crossing of the Blue Mountains

1817 A charter for banking in Australia

1819 The Bigge Report

1823 William Charles Wentworth's poem Australasia

1824 Wentworth and Wardell create the Australian newspaper

1828 Instructions to take possession of Western Australia

1828 A declaration of martial law in Van Diemen's Land

1829 An Act for the government of His Majesty's settlements in Western Australia

1835 John Batman's Melbourne deed

1835 John Batman and the founding of Melbourne

1835 Governor Richard Bourke's proclamation

1836 The Church Act

1836 Proclaiming the province of South Australia

1839 Thomas Mitchell describes the country of Victoria

1840 Ending the transportation of convicts to New South Wales

1846 A petition of the free Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land

1850 An act to incorporate and endow the University of Sydney

1852 William Howitt's advice to emigrants and gold seekers

1852 The Diggers' Ten Commandments

1853 The Bendigo Goldfields Petition

1859 Rules of the Melbourne Football Club

1860 John McDouall Stuart plants the British flag

1860 Robert O'Hara Burke's speech and the last letter of William John Wills

1872 Joining the Overland Telegraph Line between Adelaide and Port Darwin

1878 A new anthem : Advance Australia Fair

1879 Ned Kelly's Jerilderie letter

1882 The legend of the Ashes

1888 A newspaper for women

1889 The 9 x 5 impression exhibition in Melbourne

1890 Sir Henry Parkes addresses the Federation Conference

1890 Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson's The Man from Snowy River

1891 Bushmen's Official Proclamation

1891 The Monster Petition in Victoria

1895 Waltzing Matilda

1895 Female suffrage in South Australia

1899 Creating the Mitchell Library

1900 Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act

1900 Instructions for the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia

1900 The office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Australia

1900 Edmund Barton's speech on a new Australian Commonwealth

1901 A national flag for Australia

1901 Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career

1901 Immigration Restriction Act

1904 Alfred Felton's bequest

1907 The Harvester judgment

1908 Dorothea Mackellar's Australia

1908 An act to determine the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth

1911 Douglas Mawson's ambitions for the Antarctic expedition of 1911-14

1915 The first published account of the Anzac landing

1915 Keith Murdoch's letter to Prime Minister Andrew Fisher

1916 John Monash describes the first Anzac Day

1931 The Premiers' plan

1933 The BodylineTests

1938 Australia Day conference of Australian Aboriginal people

1939 Royal Commission into the Victorian bushfires

1939 Robert Menzies declares war against Germany

1941 John Curtin declares war against Japan

1941 John Curtin's New Year message

1942 Robert Menzies' appeal to the middle class

1943 Enid Lyons delivers her maiden speech in federal Parliament

1945 Ben Chifley's radio address

1949 Ben Chifley's address to the Labor Party

1951 The ANZUS Treaty

1954 The Miles Franklin Award for Australian literature

1954 Premier J. J. Cahill plans an opera house for Australia

1959 The Antipodean Manifesto

1963 The bark petition of the Yolngu people

1964 Rupert Murdoch launches the Australian

1965 Australia enters the war in Vietnam

1967 The case of Ronald Ryan

1967 The referendum on altering the Australian Constitution

1972 Gough Whitlam launches the ALP election campaign

1972 A letter to the Age

1975 The Australia Council Charter

1975 Gough Whitlam and Vincent Lingiari meet at Daguragu

1975 Racial Discrimination Act

1975 The dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government

1985 Lindy Chamberlain pleads for justice

1986 Australia Act

1991 A charter for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)

1992 Terra nullius, land rights and Mabo

1997 Bringing Them Horne report

2001 John Howard's election policy speech

2006 A charter of human rights and responsibilities

2008 A national apology to the Stolen Generations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781741965421

xiv, 362 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports. ; 28 cm