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Wednesday, 03 May 2006
British sailors first landed in Australia on 29th April 1770 and European colonisation of the continent began eighteen years later with the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales.


Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. http://www.goway.com/downunder/australia/index.html
Website of a travel agency specialising in Australia . The language is not too complex: see
‘Quickfacts’, ‘Oz Trivia’, etc.
http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
A comprehensive dictionary of Australian slang – one of countless such dictionaries
available online.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/australia/abell/2.html
Superb photographs of Australian people and landscapes from National Geographic,
each accompanied by texts that are challenging but short.
http://www.australianfauna.com/
Information on Australian animals, illustrated with photographs. Categories of animal
include ‘popular’ and ‘dangerous’.

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