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Contents

1 Exploring Australia The Story of Australia Creation and Discovery Occupying the Land 2 Australia Before 1788 Living with the Land

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Trade and Exchange

A boriginal dancers paint their bodies as

3 Visitors to Australia European Voyages 1400s-1700s The British Explore the Pacific Ocean The Macassans in Northern Australia 4 White People Invade Penal Colonies and Free Immigrants

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Opening Up the Land

Chinese and Melanesian Workers

5 European Exploration Exploring the Interior Transcontinental Links

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6 Fighting Back Frontier Wars

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Aboriginal Resistance

7 Modern Australia Journeys to a New Land

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Australia Today

Time Chart

Glossary

Index