Australia's early days

Australia's Early Days

first elections for government in New South Wales.

Approximately 6,664 people, are living on 673 squatting stations, with 350,000 cattle and 1,200,000 sheep

The British government tries to bring back the transporting to the convicts.

A select committee of the NSW Government claims that protectors of Aborigines serve no purpose and abolished.

The end of transportation to mainland Australia, by which time some 150,000 convicts have been sent to the colonies.

History

An Australia-wide depression as the market in wool- the sole major export . Drought. London banks start to withdraw credit. Thousands are bankrupted and there is mass unemployment.

1840

1843

1848

1849

1847

1841-1846