Progressinaustralia

Stanley Melbourne was the prime minister of Australia in 1920. He thought that Australia needed money, men and marked. Many agreed in this! The Country got independent in 1901, and more than 60 years later the country was dependent of England. It came more and more workers from England to join the industry. They wanted to invest in new projects, and to buy up most of Australia’s wool, meat, fruit and corn crops.
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Right up to the second war, it was England who had provided Australia all raw materials. After 1945, the industries grow strong because it came many new immigrants. Australia receives immigrants from other European country’s, and the inhabitants grown fast.

The white people in Australia grew slow the first 40 years after 1788. Many of the inhabitants were either prisoner or earlier prisoner that had been in prison before. In the 1830’s whole Australia were seen at it was England’s property. By then more immigrants came from England, and the sheep’s became an important industry. It was England who got the animals over to Australia, and the wool was sold to the home country. The colonies was called Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland and these where later the states in Australia.
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Around the 1850 the inhabitants exploded because of the big gold found in different colonies. 11 years after it was more than 1, 1 million inhabitants in Australia. Gold, wool and railroads made it possible for the Australian’s to get into the middle of the country and settle down. Many settled down in Sydney and Melbourne which grew fast.

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