The Establishment of the Swan River Colony

What does the term ‘Terra Nullius’ mean?

• The land that belongs to everybody

• The land that belongs to Britain

• The land that belongs to the Indigenous Australians

• The land that belongs to nobody

What happened on the 26th of January 1788?

• The British people became friends with the Indigenous elders

• Captain Cook had a party to celebrate his birthday

• The First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove and raised the British flag

• Captain Cook sailed from England to Australia

What were some of the reasons that England wanted to colonise Australia?

How did colonisation impact the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders?

Describe the lives of convicts in nineteenth century Australia (work conditions, punishments, clothes, rewards)

How did the events of the Industrial Revolution (eighteenth century England) lead to the establishment of the Swan River Colony?

What were some of the early difficulties of the Swan River Colony?

Describe the events of the Pinjarra Massacre

List the crimes that Western Australian Bushranger Moondyne Joe committed