Snapshot+from+Australian+history

The first inhabitants of Australia were the Aborigines, who migrated there at least 40,000 years ago from Southeast Asia. There may have been between a half million to a full million Aborigines at the time of European settlement; today about 350,000 live in Australia. Australia fought alongside Britain in World War I, notably with the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) in the Dardanelles campaign (1915). Participation in World War 2 helped Australia forge closer ties to the United States. In Sept. 1999, Australia led the international peacekeeping force sent to restore order in East Timor after pro-Indonesian militias began massacring civilians to thwart East Timor's referendum on independence. The first who research a bit of the country was the Spanish captain, Luis vaez de torres. He sailed truth the Stredet, that is between Australia and Papua ny guinea. Then it came people from Nederland and named the whole north coast. The first English Man was the pirate William Dampier, and he researches the coasts.
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