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  2. May 31, 2024 · He was the first Australian Aboriginal person to be knighted and to be the governor of an Australian state. Early life and football career. Born in 1906, Nicholls grew up on the Cummeragunja reserve in New South Wales in what was a small, tight-knit community. The reservation, which had been established in the late 1880s, was home to the Yorta ...

  3. 2 days ago · In April 1939, following Lyons's death, Menzies was elected leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) and sworn in as Prime Minister. He authorised Australia's entry into World War II in September 1939, and spent four months in England to participate in meetings of Churchill's war cabinet.

  4. 6 days ago · The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves with others claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site called Ophir. [4] [5] Hargraves had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling.

  5. 1 day ago · The Commonwealth of Australia came into being when the Federal Constitution was proclaimed by the Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, on 1 January 1901.

  6. 5 days ago · Gough Whitlam was an Australian politician and lawyer who introduced a number of policy measures and social reforms as prime minister of Australia (1972–75), but his troubled administration was cut short when he was dismissed by the governor-general. Whitlam was born in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne.

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  7. 1 day ago · On the very first day of the new century, January 1st 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed in Sydney's Centennial Park, by the first Governor General. Who was he? Answer: Lord Hopetoun

  8. May 28, 2024 · On 29 April 1965 Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced in parliament that Australia would send a battalion of combat troops to Vietnam. The decision was motivated by a desire to strengthen strategic relations with the United States and to halt the spread of communism in South-East Asia.

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