Abbott, Tony 363
Aborigines 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 19, 28, 33–5, 42–3, 61, 64, 75–6, 79–80, 87, 89, 91, 105–6, 364–5, 372
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission 365
abortion 363
Act of a proposal for colonising Australasia, The 84
Act to Provide for the Administration of Justice (1828) 73
Act to Provide for the Better Administration of Justice (1823) 55
Adams, Francis 224
Adelaide Festival 371
Adler, Louise 360
Adventure (ship) 9
Advocate 294
Afghanistan War 362
Africa, in World War II 291
agriculture 89, 165–6, 194, 255, 368–71
Alexandrina Reservoir 65
Alienation Act (1861) 165
Allen, Davida 372
Anderson, John 275
‘Anglo-Catholic’ tractarian movement 131
Anstey, Frank 267
Anti-Communist Labor Party 312 see also communists
anti-transportation league, Melbourne 125
arbitration in labour disputes 211, 215
architecture (1861–83) 172
Argentina crash 199
Armstrong, Gillian 373
art 372
Arthur, George 74, 75, 76, 106
Asquith, Lord 248
assignment, abolition of (1839) 98, 104
atomic bomb 295
Australia Council 371
Australia Felix 91
Australia, name 49
Australian Agricultural Co. 60, 69
Australian Airlines 368
Australian Broadcasting Commission 274
Australian Colonies Government Act (1850) 127, 155
Australian Communist Party 257, 265, 327 see also communists
Australian Council of Churches 295
Australian Council of Trade Unions 347
Australian Federation of Employers 193
Australian Labor Party see Federal Parliamentary Labor Party
Australian Labour Federation 205, 208
Australian National Airlines Commission 299–300
Australian National Airways 299, 300
Australian National University 302
Australian Patriotic Association 111
Australian Rules Football 374
Australian Union Steamship Navigation Co. 186–7
Australian Worker 239, 265, 270
Australian Workers’ Union 235
Bakery Hill meeting (1854) 147
Bali bombings 362
Bank of New South Wales 47
bank failures (1890s) 199, 200
Banks, Joseph 10
Barings (London) 199
Barlow, Kevin 361
Bass, George 27–8
Bathurst, Lord 41, 44, 51, 68, 77
Batman, John 91
Baynton, Barbara 168
Beazley, Kim 354
Benedictines 132
Bennet, H. G. 70
Bentley, James 147
Berry, Alexander 115
Bible Society 43
Bien Hoa 316
Black, Conrad 375
Black, George 208
Blackmore, E. G. 228
Blackwood’s 170
Blair, Tony 359
Blamey, Thomas 282–3
Blewett, Neal 354
Blix, Hans 364
Blue Mountains 41
boat people 360 see also refugees
Bond, Alan 376
Booker Prize 372
Bosanquet, Bernard 210
Boswell, James, 9
Bounty (ship) 35
bounty system (1835) 92
bourgeoisie (1861–83) 162–90, 219, 229, 238
Bourke, Sir Richard 109
Bowen, John 28
Bowman, James 69
Boyd, Arthur 372
Boyd, Ben 121
Bradman, Donald 373
Brahe, William 159–60
Brennan, Frank 355
Brisbane, Sir Thomas 55, 57–8, 59, 62, 68
Brisbane Worker 200, 206, 229, 234
Broken Hill Proprietary Co. 247
Bromby, J.E. 210
Broughton, William Grant 98, 108, 109, 110, 119, 131
Brown, Bob 370
Brown, Sarah 15
Bruce, Stanley Melbourne 259–63
Buffalo (ship) 88
building trades (1861–83) 172
Bulletin 200, 225, 229, 234, 294
Bullion Assay Act (1852) 156
Burke, Robert O’Hara 158–61, 317
Burra copper mines 89
bush workers 133
Cairns, James Ford 328, 339, 340–1
Calwell, Arthur 298, 299, 316–17, 330
Cambodia 363
Camden, Earl 25
Camoens, Luiz de 5
Campbell, Clark & Co., Calcutta 22
Campbell, Ian 370
Campion, Jane 373
Canberra 61, 118, 228, 240, 261
Cano, Sebastian del 4–5
Cape St Vincent 85
capital punishment 361
Carmichael, Henry 131
Catholicism 29–31, 50–1, 78, 93–4, 120–1, 132–3, 155, 158, 179, 182–5, 220–2, 227, 242, 304
Chaffey brothers 195
Chamberlain, Joseph 223
Chambers, Kevin 361
Chaney, Fred 356
Cheater,— 163
Chiang Kai-Shek 310
Chifley, Joseph Benedict 286, 295, 297–300, 308, 309
Chile 355
Chinese 150–3, 155, 173, 187, 193, 214, 218, 226, 233, 234, 235, 332
Chisholm, Caroline 93
Church and Schools Corporation 77
Church of England Messenger 271
cities, poverty in 173
Civilization Without Delusion 181
Clark, Ralph 18
climate and environment 80, 369–70 change 370
Coetzee. J.M. 372
Coles, Arthur 285
Colombo Plan 307
Colonial Bank, Melbourne 169
Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration 236
Commonwealth Franchise Act (1902) 235
Commonwealth of Australia 215, 221, 228
Commonwealth Posts and Telegraph Act (1901) 235
communication 157, 191, 242, 273, 299–301
communists 258, 259, 262, 265–6, 272, 277, 282, 296, 304, 306, 308, 310, 317, 327
Communist Party Dissolution Bill (1950) 308
Connor, Reginald Francis Xavier 339, 342
Conolly, P. 50–1
conscription in World War I 248–52
Conservative Free-Traders 229, 232, 238
constitutions (1850s) 142–5
Constitution Act (1856) 155
Constitution Alteration Bill (1951) 308
convicts 10, 11–18, 19–37, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 57–9, 60, 66, 74, 82, 93, 95, 122–5, 141
Cook, Joseph 241–2, 243, 244, 251
Coral Sea, Battle of the 289
Corowa conference (1893) 219
Cosgrove, Peter 363
Costello, Peter 358
Costello, Reverend Tim 376
Country Party 256–7, 258, 259, 263, 278, 304, 305, 326
Cowen, Sir Zelman 344
Cox, Paul 373
cricket 373
Crimes Act (1920) 258–9
Crowe, Russell 373
Crowley, Catherine 69
Crown Land Alienation Bill (1860) 164
culture 129, 130, 273, 299, 313, 325, 358, 371–3
‘currency lads’ 49
Curtin, John Joseph 281–2, 285–6, 287–8, 289, 292
Daley, Victor 149
Dalgetys 193
Dampier, William 8
Dangar family 61
Darling, Sir Ralph 59, 61, 63, 68, 71–3
Darwin 288
Davis, Jack 372
Davis, Judy 373
de Groot, F.E. 271–2
De la Démocratie en Amérique 126
Deakin, Alfred 176, 210–11, 212, 218, 232, 233, 238–9, 240
Democratic Labor Party 312
Deniehy, Daniel 154
Denison Hotel, Sydney 163
Depression 1840s 113 1890s 199–203 1930s 266
Derby, Lord 187
Descent of Man, The 180
Desert Storm 364
Dicey, A.V. 292
Diem, Ngo Dinh 315
Donaldson, S. A. 154
Douglass, H.G. 67–8
Downer, Alexander 356
Duffy Act (1862) 165
Dumaresq family 61
Dutch East India Co. 7
Duyfken (ship) 6
DVD technology 376
economic growth 57–9, 61, 191–6, 198, 199, 218
Edinburgh Review 170
education 77, 108, 109, 119–20, 178–80, 184–6, 332, 358, 366–7
Edwards, Sir J. Bevan 216–17
Elder Smith and Co. 193
Electoral Districts Act (1856–59) 155
Elementary Education Act (1871) 183
Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta 24
emancipists 40, 45, 46, 52, 53, 54, 58, 60–1, 63, 67–73, 82, 99, 110
Emden (warship) 245
Empire 176
employment 369
Endeavour (ship) 10
Esson, Louis 241
Eureka, Ballarat 148–50
‘Eureka’ (ballad) 149–50
Eureka Hotel, Ballarat 147
European Common Market 313
Evans, G.W. 41
Evatt, Herbert Vere 286, 291–4, 308, 309, 310
Eyre, E. J. 89
Fadden, Arthur 285
Fairfax, Warwick 375
Farrell, John 147
Farrer, William 194
Fawkner, John Pascoe 91, 150–1
Federal Parliamentary Labor Party 230–1, 232, 237, 240–2, 249, 250 256, 257, 264, 278–9, 355, 359, 360
Federation movement 204, 215–23
Federation Square 372
Fenton, J. E. 269
Fielding, Steve 359
‘Fightback’ 356
film industry 373
Financial Review 337
Finlay, Peter 372
First Fleet 12–17
Fisher, Captain 202
Fisher, Andrew 240, 243, 244, 247
Flexmore, Francis 15
Forbes, Francis 72
Forrest, John 222
Foveaux, Joseph 36
Foxtel 376
France 28, 65, 187, 217, 246, 283
Fraser, John Malcolm 329, 337–8, 342–6, 353
free workers 96
Freeman’s Journal 231–2
Gair, Vincent 334
Game, Philip 272
Garrard, J. 204
Gawler, George 88
George V, King 266
George VI, King 312
Germany 88, 187, 217, 244, 252 see also World War II
Giap, General Vo Nguyen 315
Gillies, Duncan 209
Gipps, Sir George 105–6, 109–10, 115
Gladstone, William 123
Glass, Hugh 169–70
Glenelg, Lord 99
Goebbels, J.P. 284
gold, discovery of 129, 135–40
gold diggers (1851–61) 135–53
Goldsbrough Mort 193
Goods and Services Tax 356, 357
Gorton, John Grey 328–9
Goss, Wayne 355
Gouger, Robert 84–5
Grant Act (1865) 168
Gray, Charles 159
Green, T.H. 210
greenhouse gases 370
Greens, Australian 370
Grey, George 88, 114, 126, 216, 248
Griffin, Walter Burley 240
Griffith, Samuel 187, 196–7, 202
Guantanamo Bay 362
Guardian (ship) 20
Habib, Mamdouh 362
Haldane, Lord 248
Hall, E. S. 71
Hand, Gerry 360
Hanson, Pauline 356–7
Harradine, Brian 357
Hartog, Dirk 6
Hashemy (ship) 124
Hasluck, Sir Paul 335
Hawke, Robert James Lee 346–9, 353, 354, 355, 361, 365
Hawkes, Ponch 372
Hayden, William 345, 346, 354, 355
health 365–6
Henty, James 59–60
Herald Sun 375
Hewson, John 356
Hicks, David 362
Hicks, Terry 362
Higgins, H. B 236–7
High Court of Australia 221, 223, 236
Higher Education Contribution Scheme 367
Higinbotham, George 181–2
Hiroshima 295
Hiscock, Thomas 136
Hitler, Adolph 284
Ho Chi Minh 315
Hobart (destroyer) 316
Hobart Town 28, 34, 45, 65, 74, 76, 82
Hoddle, Robert 91–2
Holman, W.A. 292
Holyman brothers 299
Hope, Alec 320
Hope, Louis 195
Howard, John Winston 353–66
Howe, Brian 354
Howe, Robert 71
Hughes, William Morris 239, 241, 243–4, 247–54, 255–60, 264, 288
Hume, Hamilton 42, 62–3, 65, 90
Hummer 206
Illustrated London News 167
immigrants 59–61, 63, 67, 84–95, 110, 261, 298, 323
Immigration Restriction Act (1901) 233, 234, 258, 263
Industrial Workers of the World 251, 256, 261
industrialization 247, 260, 273, 275
industry changes since 1980s 368 1861–83 172 government aid for 236, 258, 261 government ownership of 264 after World War II 300–2
Intercolonial Convention (1883) 187
Intercolonial Trades Union Congress (1879) 193
International Socialist 241
Invalid and Old Age Pensioners Act (1908) 235, 237
Isaacs, Isaac 266
Istanbool (ship) 157
Italy 283
Jansz, Willem 6
Japan 223, 234, 253, 277, 286, 287–92, 323
Johnson, Lyndon B. 316, 318, 320
Johnson, Richard 13–14, 15, 16–17, 18, 28, 32
Johnson, Samuel 9
Johnston, Major George 36
Johnston, William 30–1
Judiciary Act (1902) 236
Keating, Paul John 353–5, 356, 357, 361, 364, 369
Kennedy, John F. 315
King, John 159–60
Kingston, C.C. 232
Klencke, Christian 15–16
Knopwood, Robert 28–9
Kookaburras 174–5
Kyoto Protocol 370
Labor Call 262
Labor Daily 268
Labour Electoral League 206
labour shortage 84, 86, 121, 125, 187, 196
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 273
Lady Juliana (ship) 20
Lalor, Peter 148
Lambing Flat riot 152
land laws 87, 98–101, 111, 115, 165–7
Land Tax Act (1910) 241
Landcare 370
Lang, J. Dunmore 77–8, 113, 115
Larra, James 22–3
Lasry, Lex 361
Lawrence, D.H. 273
League of Nations 253
Learmonth, – 105
Lees, Meg 357
Lenin, Vladimir 252
Leo XIII, Pope 182
Letter from Sydney, A 84
Levey, Solomon 66
Liberal Party 238–9, 241, 251, 304–5
Liberal Protectionists 229–3, 232, 236, 237, 238
Lindsay, Norman 275
London bombings 362
Lonsdale, William 91
Lord, Simeon 22, 35, 40, 45, 54, 58
Lowe, Robert 124
Lowy, Frank 374
Lynch, Philip 340
Lyons, Joseph Aloysius 267, 269–70, 271, 279
Macarthur, Elizabeth 24
Macarthur, Hannibal 115
Macarthur, James 96, 111–12, 114, 115, 143
Macarthur, John 24–5, 35, 36, 53, 56, 68–9
McAuliffe, Michael 361
McIlwraith, Thomas 187
McKay, H. V. 236
McMahon, William 329–30
Magellan, Ferdinand 4–5
Malouf, David 372
Man Booker Prize 372
Mandela, Nelson 372
Manne, Robert 365
Mannix, Daniel 242, 249–50, 251, 312
Mansfield, Ralph 131
Maritime Industries Bill (1929) 263
Marsden, Samuel 40, 44, 46, 53, 56, 67–8
mateship 107, 133–4, 153, 225, 319
meat industry 195
media 375–6
Melba, Nellie 262
Melbourne, Lord 92
Melbourne city 91, 128, 156, 171, 172, 174, 372
Melbourne Grammar School 210, 259, 337
Melville, N. 204
Mendana, Alvaro 5
Menzies, Robert Gordon 279–85, 288, 304–5, 307, 308, 312–13, 317, 318
Miller, Keith 373
Mitchell, Thomas 90–1
Molesworth, William 97
Montgomery, B.L., Viscount 291
Moore, Harrison 280
Moran, Cardinal Patrick F. 203, 207, 322
Morning Chronicle, London 84
Mudie, James 95
Murdoch, Rupert 365, 374, 375, 376
Murray-Darling Basin Agreement 370
Nagasaki 295
National Gallery 372
National Party 251, 255–6, 256–7, 258, 259, 371
National-Country Party 263, 326
Nationalists (1883–1901) 191–226
Native Title Act (1993) 355
Native Title Amendment Act (Wik) 357
Nazis 279 see also Germany, World War II
Nehru, Pandit Motilah 310
New South Wales Shearers’ Accommodation Act (1901) 235
New Zealand 7, 8, 23, 244, 245, 294, 323
Newman College 242
Nguyen, Van Tuong 361
Nicholls, Trevor 372
Niemeyer, Otto 267
Nietzsche, Friedrich 275
Nixon, Francis Russell 131
Norfolk (ship) 27–8
Norrie, Susan 372
nuclear waste 370
Nuyts, Peter 7
O’Dowd, Bernard 276
O’Flynn, Jeremiah 50
O’Sullivan, E. W. 204
Occupation Act (1861) 165
Old Age Pensions Act (1908) 237
Olympic Games 374–5
On Our Selection 168
On the Origin of the Species 180
One Nation Party 357
Pacific Island Labourers Act (1901) 235
Packer, Kerry 376
Pan Pacific Secretariat meeting (1929) 265
Parkes, Henry 153–4, 175, 176–8, 211, 217
Parramatta 24, 25, 27, 29, 43, 108
pastoral companies 193
pastoralists 89, 91, 162–71, 256
payment of MPs 213
Payne, Marise 356
Pearce, Guy 373
Pearl Harbor 286
Pearson, Noel 355
Peel, Thomas 66
Petrov affair 308–10
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme 366
Phillip, Arthur 12–13, 16–17, 18, 20–1, 32, 66
Piddington, W.R. 144
Pitt, William 10
Pius IX, Pope 158
Polding, John Bede 110, 119, 130, 132–3
Political Labour League 205, 207, 208, 220, 243, 248–9
population 273 1819 48 1828 82 1849 129 1851–61 155 1881 192–3 1891 194 1945–60 322 1967 299 (by religion) check number 2000 352–3 ethnic groups 197 native born 192
Porpoise (ship) 38
Port Dalrymple 28, 34, 62, 65, 74, 76, 93
Port Phillip 28, 62, 65, 90, 92, 99–100, 105–6, 111, 125, 127
Port Phillip Association 91, 100, 125, 127
Premiers’ Conference, Hobart (1895) 219
Prince of Wales (warship) 287
Pring, — 175
prisons 353
probation gangs 122
‘Protection’ 235–6, 238, 257, 258
public works (1810–21) 39–41, 47
Quadrant 365
Queen (ship) 29
radicals (1883–1901) 191–226
radio broadcasting 274
Randolph (ship) 125
Rau, Cornelia 361
Rayson, Hannie 372
Reed, Joseph 172
Rene, Roy 275
Repulse (warship) 287
Rerum Novarum (encyclical) 207, 231, 286
Resolution (ship) 9
Reynolds, Henry 364
Ridley, John 89–90
Roberston, John 164, 174, 176, 188, 209
Robinson, M.M. 70
Rommel, Erwin 291
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 289
Rosellas 174–5
Rudd, Steele 168
Ruse, James 21
Russell, Bertrand 314
Russian Revolution 252, 257, 281
Russo-Japanese War 277
Ryan, Lyndal 364
Ryan, Susan 354
Sale of Waste Land Act (1846) 117
Santamaria, B.A. 312
Satgé, Oscar de 175
Schepisi, Fred 373
schools 32, 42, 77, 108, 118, 171, 178–80, 332, 358
Scobie, James 147
Scott, Thomas Hobbes 69, 77, 108
Scullin, James 263–4, 266, 267, 269, 270
Seamen’s Union 186
Selection Act (1868) 165–6
selectors 164–70, 190 see also land laws; squatters
September 11 attack 358
Service, James 188
services sector 369
settlers 12–18, 19–35, 57–61, 84–8
sheep 25, 37, 41, 48, 53, 54, 60, 91, 101, 201 368 see also wool industry
single-tax league 207
Skase, Christopher 376
Smith, C.E. Kingsford 299
Snedden, Billy Mackie 334–7
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Bill (1949) 301–2
soccer 373–4
social welfare legislation 240, 293, 302–3
Solomon Islands 363
Solon, Vivian Alvarez 361
South Australian Land Co. 86
Spain 5
Spanish Civil War 277
Spender, Percy 307
sport 373–5
squatters 100–12, 118–19, 162–3, 171, 188
St Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne 158
state differences 221–3, 264 see also Federation movement
Stewart, Douglas 320
Stirling, James 66
Stokes, Kerry 376
stolen generations 365
Stone, Sharman 356
Stonehaven, Lord 266
Storey, J. 257
Strangways Act (1869) 166
Sturt, Charles 62, 63–4, 85, 89
Such is Life 277
suffrage 153–5, 163–5, 171, 212
sugar industry 187, 195–8, 261
Sunday School movement 44
Sunshine Harvester Co. 236–7
Sydney, city 17, 39, 81, 82, 172, 173, 227, 374–5
Sydney (cruiser) 245
Sydney Gazette 32, 33, 40, 43, 50, 81
Sydney Morning Herald 93, 114, 116–17, 124, 129, 136, 152, 163–4, 165
Sydney Opera House 371
Syndicalists 251
‘systematic colonizers’ 85–9
Tanaka memorial (1927) 278
tariffs 193, 212, 219, 236, 257, 258, 267, 278
Tasman, Abel 7
Tasmania, naming of 142
taxes 357
Telegraph-Mirror 375
telephone exchange 192
television 375–6
Telstra 360
terrorism 362
Thatcher, Charles 162
Therry, J.J. 50–1
Thomas, Rover 372
Thompson, Andrew 40
Throsby, Charles 42
Tocqueville, Alexis de 126, 210
Tonkin, Gulf of 316
Torres, Luis de 5
trade unionism 193, 201, 204, 265
Train, G.F. 157
transition from convict system (1821–31) 57–83
transport 157, 191, 242, 299, 367–8
transportation of convicts 10, 41, 47, 51–2, 95–8, 122–5, 142
tsunami, Asian 376–7
Tudor, Frank 251
Ullathorne, W.B. 95, 110, 132–3
Ulm, C.T.P. 299
unemployment 1840s 113 1890s 199 1930s 266 1970s 344 1980s 345 1990s 353, 361 2000 353
unions see trade unionism
United Australia Party 270, 271, 272, 278, 279, 285, 305
United States of America 10, 11, 22, 82, 94, 114, 124, 233, 287–8, 301, 305, 306–7, 309, 313, 314, 324–6, 354, 359
universities 366–7
urbanization 273–4
Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), settlement 27–8, 42, 48, 55, 58, 61, 62, 74–5, 82, 98, 106, 112, 142
Van Diemen’s Land Co. 61
Vanstone, Amanda 360
Victorian Socialist Party 257
Viet Cong 314
vineyards 370
Voluntarys 72, 78, 91, 131, 180
von Sanders, Liman 245
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 84, 85–6
‘Water Them Geraniums’ 168
Weir, Peter 373
welfare state see social welfare legislation
Wentworth, D’Arcy 69
Wentworth, William Charles 56, 69–72, 97, 111, 114, 115–16, 117, 123, 143, 144, 317
White Australia policy 49, 229, 232–5, 237, 239, 255, 258, 263, 265, 278, 304
Whiteley, Brett 372
Whitlam, Gough 318, 330–3, 341–3, 349, 359
Wild, Joseph 42
Williams, Charles 23
Williamson, David 372
Willis, John Walpole 130
Wills, W.J. 159–60
Willson, R.W. 133
Wilson, Ronald 365
Windschuttle, Keith 365
wool industry 24, 44, 60, 113, 114, 121, 169, 193, 201, 306, 368
World War II 168, 277, 282–95, 364
Wright, Judith 320
Wylde, John 44
Wylie (Aborigine) 89
Yang, William 372
York, Duke of 261–2
Young, Sir Henry 156