Some, such as the radical magazine The Bulletin and the Tasmanian Attorney-General Andrew Inglis Clark, were republicans, while others were prepared to accept a fully independent country of Australia with only a ceremonial role for the British monarch. [34][35][36][37] The Dutch East India Company ship, Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, made the first documented European landing in Australia in 1606. "[562], The 1960s was a key decade for Indigenous rights, with the demand for change led by Indigenous activists and organisations such as the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [499], In Indigenous affairs the Prime Minister rejected calls for a treaty with Indigenous Australians and an apology for past actions which had harmed them. British Malaya quickly collapsed, shocking the Australian nation. "[575], Despite the drift to large cities, the period from 1965 to 1980 also saw a movement of Indigenous Australians away from towns and settlements to small outstations (or homelands), particularly in Arnhem Land and Central Australia. pp. Later that year, Spanish explorer Lus Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, what is now called Torres Strait and associated islands. When Menzies retired in 1965, he was replaced as Liberal leader and Prime Minister by Harold Holt. 27/04/04 - Laughter turns to tears as sun sets on Wonderland, 23/07/04 - Family seeks theme park ticket refund. It was the first of many of his satirical stage and screen creations based around quirky Australian characters: Sandy Stone, a morose elderly suburbanite, Barry McKenzie a naive Australian expat in London and Sir Les Patterson, a vulgar parody of a Whitlam-era politician. themagician Coasterjoe [170] The following year Willian Gosse observed Uluru and named it Ayers Rock, in honour of the Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers. Various "plans" to resolve the crisis were suggested; Sir Otto Niemeyer, a representative of the English banks who visited in mid-1930, proposed a deflationary plan, involving cuts to government spending and wages. For almost two decades, Wonderland operated more than 20 rides in Sydneys Eastern Creek. The main road inside Old Sydney Town in February 1988. Trade, shipping and ship building were banned in order to keep the convicts isolated and so as not to interfere with the trade monopoly of the British East India Company. [422] While both attempts were unsuccessful, further international events such as the defection of minor Soviet Embassy official Vladimir Petrov, added to a sense of impending threat that politically favoured Menzies' Liberal-CP government, as the Labor Party split over concerns about the influence of the Communist Party on the trade union movement. 'Fortress Australia' has started to open. In 1966, the Gurindji people of Wave Hill station commenced the Gurindji strike in a quest for equal pay and recognition of land rights. The Snowy River Rampage was a rapids ride at Australia's Wonderland in 1991.Credit:Unknown. King, "Gustaf III's Australian Colony". In 2000, the government claimed that a maximum of 10 per cent of Aboriginal children had been separated from their parents and that the policy was lawful and well-intentioned. [508] The government was soon confronted by the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent global recession, responding with a series of economic stimulus measures worth A$75 billion. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was formed from New South Wales in 1911 to provide a location for the proposed new federal capital of Canberra (Melbourne was the seat of government from 1901 to 1927). The Nazi propagandist Lord Haw Haw derided the defenders as 'rats', a term the soldiers adopted as an ironic compliment: "The Rats of Tobruk". In 2016, Sydney electrician Dave Naylor made a similar visit to the site with friends, describing the area as a boneyard of fond childhood memories. Each time a theme park closes its doors for the final time a heavy sigh can be felt nearby. [567], In 1966, the Australian government gave Aboriginal people the same rights to social security benefits as other Australians. Scooby Doo and Fred Flinstone meet some mates at the Party Room in Hanna Barbera Land at Australia's Wonderland. Your previous content has been restored. In January 1941, Menzies flew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences. Steve Christo. [157] In 180102 Matthew Flinders in HMSInvestigator led the first circumnavigation of Australia. pp. It was an institution for many, and a hotspot during school holidays. The original Big Dipper ride at Luna Park in December 1977. Land was to be sold at a uniform price and the proceeds used to secure an adequate supply of labour through selective assisted migration. Dreamworld did well to counter this with very well times thrill and family attractions. Labor won the November 2007 election with a swing of more than 5 per cent and Howard became only the second sitting Prime Minister to lose his seat in an election. As the Nixon administration proceeded with Vietnamization of the war and began the withdrawal of troops, so did the Australian Government. The Anti-Transportation League also saw the convict system as a barrier to the achievement of self-government. Most reserves allowed Aboriginal people a degree of autonomy and freedom to enter and leave. The early colonial courts enforced the property rights of women independently of their husbands, and the ration system also gave women and their children some protection from abandonment. In this vast tract of land.every sort of produce and improvement of which the various soils of the earth are capable, may be expected". On 8 June 1942, two Japanese submarines briefly shelled Sydney's eastern suburbs and the city of Newcastle.[401]. Holmes, Katie; Pinto, Sarah (2016). The ride was sold in 2005 to Fly Coaster, a small. In 1954, the Menzies Government formally announced the introduction of the new two-tiered TV systema government-funded service run by the ABC, and two commercial services in Sydney and Melbourne, with the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne being a major driving force behind the introduction of television to Australia. [160], Surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell conducted a series of expeditions from the 1830s to 'fill in the gaps' left by these previous expeditions. In, Broomhall, Susan (2018), 'Dirk Hartog's Sea Chest: An Affective Archaeology of VOC Objects in Australia,'; in. [530] The government announced a National Innovation and Science Agenda and delivered a Budget featuring cuts to company tax. The external territories were added: Norfolk Island (1914); Ashmore Island, Cartier Islands (1931); the Australian Antarctic Territory transferred from Britain (1933); Heard Island, McDonald Islands, and Macquarie Island transferred to Australia from Britain (1947). "History in the academy". [372] Geoffrey Spenceley stated that apart from variation between men and women, unemployment was also much higher in some industries, such as the building and construction industry, and comparatively low in the public administrative and professional sectors. The 1880s saw trade unions grow and spread to lower skilled workers and also across colonial boundaries. Australia's largest city by population, yet only served by a small, albe. As the number of unauthorised immigrants arriving by boat continued to climb, the government reopened offshore processing centres on Manus Island and Nauru. Your link has been automatically embedded. The Bush Beast roller-coaster in December 1991. [214][215], The British government abolished transportation to New South Wales in 1840, and in 1842 granted limited representative government to the colony by establishing a reformed Legislative Council with one-third of its members appointed by the governor and two-thirds elected by male voters who met a property qualification. Bullens Animal World, a safari-style theme park in Wallacia, where guests would drive their own cars down meandering dirt roads to observe mainly African animals, operated from 1969 to 1985. Writers who published their first book between 1975 and 1985 include Peter Carey, David Malouf, Murray Bail, Elizabeth Jolley, Helen Garner and Tim Winton. The tensions led to another bitter split and the emergence of the breakaway Democratic Labor Party (DLP). Curtin had thus presided over a fundamental shift in Australia's foreign policy. [25] While Khan does not have a site for the Park he plans that it would occupy a site around 300 acres in and around Eastern Creek or towards Hoxton Park. [581][582], The reforming drive of the 1960s and the increasing influence of the women's movement led to a series of legislative and institutional changes. The government was also hampered by leadership tensions between Howard and Costello and opinion polls indicating a desire for a generational change in leadership (opposition leader Kevin Rudd was eighteen years younger than Howard and widely seen as more vibrant). A case study into the former Australia's Wonderland, including a history of the park, and an analysis into why it closed down, touching upon potential hypothetical scenarios . In most states Aboriginal Australians were banned from drinking alcohol and their freedom of association, movement and control of property was restricted. [346] The migration campaign of the 1920s, operated by the Development and Migration Commission, brought almost 300,000 Britons to Australia,[347] although schemes to settle migrants and returned soldiers "on the land" were generally not a success. Employers responded by locking out workers and employing non-union labour, and colonial governments intervened with police and troops. Parkes also struck a deal with Edmund Barton, leader of the NSW Protectionist Party, whereby they would work together for federation and leave the question of a protective tariff for a future Australian government to decide. The report found that between 10 per cent and 33 per cent of Aboriginal children had been forcibly separated from their parents between 1910 and 1970. The resulting media campaign against the tax by the mining industry particularly affected Labor's support in the resource-rich states of Queensland and Western Australia. As the economy slowed in 1927, so did manufacturing and the country slipped into recession as profits slumped and unemployment rose.[362]. [96][97], Macquarie served as the last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, from 1810 to 1821, and had a leading role in the social and economic development of New South Wales which saw it transition from a penal colony to a budding civil society.