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1770 Captain Cook lands Captain Cook lands in Botany Bay and claims
possession of the East coast of Australia
1788 First fleet arrives The first fleet arrives in Sydney, with around 60
nationalities among the crew and convicts
1790 Occupation resisted Aboriginal people resist occupation of their land, many
are killed
1810 Aboriginal missions Aboriginal missions set up. Different religious groups
established in colony
1830 Migration and Migration expands with assisted migration from Britain,
Aboriginal deaths laborers from Asia and South Sea Islands, Germans
settle in South Australia
Aboriginal people are killed at Myall Creek, New South
Wales and PInjarra, Western Australia
1850 Chinese and Irish Gold rush brings migrants from many countries
migration (particularly China and Ireland after the potato famine
and the anti-Chinese legislation is passed)
1910 WWI, immigration World War I, Aboriginal soldiers were among the troops
halts, Aboriginal Aboriginal children removed from families across
children removed Australia- this continued into the 1970s
2002 1976 Aboriginal Land Immigration, Aboriginal and Multicultural Affairs Minister
Rights Act meets with the Northern Land Council. The Government
promises to streamline the legislation which impedes
economic development on Indigenous land
2012 Asylum seekers count From June 2001 to 2012, 964 asylum seekers have
Asylum seeker been lost at sea
transfer Australian Government transfers asylum seekers to
Manus Island in Papua New Guinea whom will be
processed under PNG laws
2015 Australian Border Australian Border Force Act takes effect July 2015
Force Act
2016 Indefinite detention Asylum seekers who arrive without a prior valid visa (sea
or air) continue to to be subject to indefinite mandatory
detention