... born on the 27th of October 1928, and was one of seven children. His father was a poor farm labourer, and so was James until getting a job at a Grocer's assistant. Cook then began to work as an apprentice for a firm of ship owners. At the age of 18, James Cook found employment on the Baltic Sea in a Collier(ships for coal transport). In 1755 Cook joined the Royal, Navy of England ... and was aboard as an able seamen on the ... the St. Lawrence river, leading the way for the Wolfe amphibious assault by the British during the war with the French in Quebec city in 1759. In 1763 he was giv...

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... to his tribe were she was baptised as a Christian, and given the name of Rubina. They had nine children, two of who died. How He Became An Artist Albert Namatjira became an artist after the meeting with Rex Battarbee, a well-known Melbourne artist who specialized in watercolours and was the first European to paint the beauty of the central Australian Desert. Battarbee and European artist John A. Gardner held an ... at Simpson's Gap in 1953 Albert Namatjira's Art Works Albert Namatjira painted scenes around Alice Springs. Some of the areas were the Macdonnell Ranges and the Finke River. ...

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... immigration. Is this what Australians, new and old, or of and ethnic group wants? The Premier of NSW, Bob Carr was right when he said, "the nation can't handle more people....Sydney is bursting at the seams....the debate ought to be about carrying capacity of the continent - a continent that has lousy soils, fragile vegetation and depleted and degraded river systems". ECONOMICS To cope with our massive immigration problem ... annum from Hepatitis B and rates of TB contact in inner Sydney schools of 25%. The government admits it does not have the resources to immunise those as risk of He...

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... And brilliant record show Whose names but said, our children stand And noble deeds recall! Farewell! Ye heroes of our land, Ye brave explorers, all!" Each and every Australian should be so proud of our wonderful, brave and heroic explorers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. Without these men we would never have explored the extended lands of our vast country. Without these men, we would never ... Sturt himself stated that he "doubt(ed) very much whether (they) should have ever pushed so far down the river, had we not been assisted by the natives themselves". Just like true intel...

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