Australian Symbols by Spencer https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76 en-us 2013-09-04 03:57:12 UTC 2013-09-04 23:07:18 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d2s8n7nv9yizdf.cloudfront.net/assets/thmbs/random-4743207191a9820c13ed91787b61db51.jpg Ned Kelly 20162399 https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76/wish/12503531

Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880) was an Irish Australian bushranger. Kelly's legacy is controversial; many consider him to be a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class, while others emphasise his involvement in killing.

Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the Victoria Police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he and his colleagues killed three policemen, the colonial government proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted outlaws.

]]> 2013-09-04 03:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76/wish/12503531 Captain James Cook 20162399 https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76/wish/12503869 In 1766, the Royal Society engaged Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun. Cook, at the age of 39, was promoted to lieutenant and named as commander of the expedition. On 23 April he made his first recorded direct observation of indigenous Australian at Brush Island near Bawley Point, noting in his journal: "…and were so near the Shore as to distinguish several people upon the Sea beach they appear'd to be of a very dark or black Colour but whether this was the real colour of their skins or the Clothes they might have on I know not."

]]> 2013-09-04 04:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76/wish/12503869 Sir Henry Parkes 20162399 https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76/wish/12504785 Sir Henry Parkes,  (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a statesman and politician who is considered the Father of the Australian Federation. As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Commonwealth of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.

]]> 2013-09-04 04:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76/wish/12504785 The Gold Rush 20162399 https://padlet.com/20162399/856j8nyw76/wish/12569864 Australian Gold Rush was a period of significant migration of workers, both more locally and from overseas, to areas which had discoveries of gold deposits. There were a number of gold finds in Australia prior to 1851, but it is only the gold found from 1851 onwards which created gold rushes. This is mainly because, prior to 1851, the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851, and Tasmania did not become a separate colony until 1856) had suppressed news of gold finds which it believed would reduce the workforce and destabilise the economy.

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