As a full-time traveller, and having been born in the UK, I am here to answer your question and provide a guide to Australia’s history with the United Kingdom. Is Australia Part Of The UK? Karskens, Grace (2013). "The early colonial presence, 1788–1822". In The Cambridge History of Australia, Volume 1. pp. 117–19 Cable, K J (1967). "Johnson, Richard (1753–1827)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538 . Retrieved 15 September 2020. In the first two years of settlement the Aboriginal people of Sydney, after initial curiosity, mostly avoided the newcomers. In November 1790, 18 months after the smallpox epidemic that had devastated the Aboriginal population, Bennelong led the survivors of several clans into Sydney. [41] Bungaree, a Kuringgai man, joined Matthew Flinders in his circumnavigation of Australia from 1801 to 1803, playing an important role as emissary to the various Indigenous peoples they encountered. [42]

In 1840, the Adelaide City Council and the Sydney City Council were established. Men who possessed 1,000 pounds' worth of property were able to stand for election and wealthy landowners were permitted up to four votes each in elections. Australia's first parliamentary elections were conducted for the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1843, again with voting rights (for males only) tied to property ownership or financial capacity. Voter rights were extended further in New South Wales in 1850 and elections for legislative councils were held in the colonies of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. [68]Eleanor Dark's 1947 Timeless Land trilogy, which spans the colonisation from 1788 to 1811. The 1980s television drama, The Timeless Land, was based on this trilogy. Macquarie also played a leading role in the economic development of New South Wales by employing a planner to design the street layout of Sydney and commissioning the construction of roads, wharves, churches, and public buildings. He sent explorers out from Sydney and, in 1815, a road across the Blue Mountains was completed, opening the way for large scale farming and grazing in the lightly-wooded pastures west of the Great Dividing Range. [80] [81] Suttor, T L (1967). "Ullathorne, William Bernard (1806–1889)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538 . Retrieved 15 September 2020.

Kemp (2018)The politics of New South Wales under Bourke cannot be understood simply as a battle for power between ‘emancipists’ and ‘exclusives’. This was only one of the colony’s lines of political cleavage. Many supporting the claims of emancipists were free emigrants, and the formulation by the emigrants of their claims expressed liberal ideas that had much wider currency than in New South Wales alone.

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From 1788 until the 1850s, the governance of the colonies, including most policy decision-making, was largely in the hands of the governors, who were directly responsible to the government in London ( Home Office until 1794; War Office until 1801; and War and Colonial Office until 1854). [1] The first governor of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip, was given executive and legislative powers to establish courts, military forces, fight enemies, give out land grants, and regulate the economy. [1] [52] Flood, Josephine (2019). The Original Australians (2nded.). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin. pp.22–23, 111–13. ISBN 9781760527075.Duyker, Edward & Maryse. 2001. Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791–1793. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84932-6. Australia was divided into six colonies, New South Wales, 1788; Tasmania, 1825; Western Australia, 1829; South Australia, 1836; Victoria, 1851; and Queensland, 1859, during the early colonial era. These same colonies eventually became the colonies of Australia. The half of New South Wales north of 26° south was made Botany Bay Story". Saint Anne's Catholic Home Schooling Group. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008 . Retrieved 31 July 2012. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) The Right to Vote in Australia". Australian Electoral Commission. 28 January 2011. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013 . Retrieved 12 July 2013.

The colonisation is why there is a Union Flag (the flag of the UK) in the top corner of the Australian flag, and many other flags around the world such as New Zealand or Tuvalu. Although Australia is independent, they still have the British monarch as the head of state, but this is purely a symbolic role and holds no political power. Catholic convicts were compelled to attend Church of England services and their children and orphans were raised by the authorities as Protestant. [90] The first Catholic priest colonists arrived in Australia as convicts in 1800—James Harold, James Dixon, and Peter O'Neill, who had been convicted for "complicity" in the Irish 1798 Rebellion. Dixon was conditionally emancipated and permitted to celebrate Mass. On 15 May 1803, in vestments made from curtains and with a chalice made of tin, he conducted the first Catholic Mass in New South Wales. [90] William Wentworth established the Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) in 1835 to demand democratic government for New South Wales. He had petitioned the British government for self-determination in 1827. [1] The reformist attorney general, John Plunkett, sought to apply Enlightenment principles to governance in the colony, pursuing the establishment of equality before the law, first by extending jury rights to emancipists, then by extending legal protections to convicts, assigned servants and Aboriginal peoples. Plunkett twice charged the colonist perpetrators of the Myall Creek massacre of Aboriginal people with murder, resulting in a conviction and his landmark Church Act of 1836 disestablished the Church of England and established legal equality between Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians and later Methodists. [67] Representative government [ edit ] Opening of Australia's first elected Parliament in Sydney, 1843 Nairn, Bede (1967). "Polding, John Bede (1794–1877)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538 . Retrieved 15 September 2020. Gascoigne, John (1998). Science in the service of empire: Joseph Banks, the British state and the uses of science in the age of revolution. Cambridge, UK. p.187. ISBN 0-521-55069-6. OCLC 39524807. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

May 1787 – The 11 ships of the First Fleet leave Portsmouth under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. Different accounts give varying numbers of passengers but the fleet consisted of at least 1,350 persons of whom 780 were convicts and 570 were free men, women and children and the number included four companies of marines. About 20% of the convicts were women and the oldest convict was 82. About 50% of the convicts had been tried in Middlesex and most of the rest were tried in the county assizes of Devon, Kent and Sussex