This comprehensive survey aims to answer two questions. First, why Australia's eight capital cities are situated where they are, and second, how they were established. Pairs of chapters on each of the state capitals--Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane--are accompanied by studies of Canberra as federal capital and Darwin as territorial capital.
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Despite the size of the Australian continent and its empty spaces, most of its population live in just eight capital cities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bush capital, convict establishment, private settlers, free settlement, secondary punishment, penal establishment, kangaroo meat, convict transportation, free settlers, penal settlement, import replacement, western port, functional specialisation, convict settlement, northern settlement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Port Phillip, Colonial Office, South Australia, Moreton Bay, Brisbane Town, Melville Island, Port Essington, Botany Bay, Victoria River, Escape Cliffs, Port Jackson, Hobart Town, King George Sound, Adam Bay, East India Company, Port Darwin, Raffles Bay, Norfolk Island, Bass Strait, New Holland, New Zealand, Northern Territory, South Brisbane, North Brisbane New!
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Despite the size of the Australian continent and its empty spaces, most of its population live in just eight capital cities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bush capital, convict establishment, private settlers, free settlement, secondary punishment, penal establishment, kangaroo meat, convict transportation, free settlers, penal settlement, import replacement, western port, functional specialisation, convict settlement, northern settlement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Port Phillip, Colonial Office, South Australia, Moreton Bay, Brisbane Town, Melville Island, Port Essington, Botany Bay, Victoria River, Escape Cliffs, Port Jackson, Hobart Town, King George Sound, Adam Bay, East India Company, Port Darwin, Raffles Bay, Norfolk Island, Bass Strait, New Holland, New Zealand, Northern Territory, South Brisbane, North Brisbane New!
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- A New History of Western Australia by C. T. Stannage on 4 pages
- A History of Australia by Manning Clark on page 38, page 51, and page 138
- Voyage to Terra Australis, A: Volume 2 by Matthew Flinders on page 61, page 200, and page 214
- A History of Australia: Volumes I & II: From Earliest Times to 1838 by Manning Clark on page 38, page 51, and page 138
- Convicts and the Colonies by A. G. L. Shaw in Front Matter, and page 116
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- Australian Cities: Issues, Strategies and Policies for Urban Australia in the 1990s (Reshaping Australian Institutions) by Patrick Troy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Oxford Companion to Australian History by Graeme Davison on page 17, and page 586
- The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939 (Studies in Australian History) by Raelene Frances in Front Matter
- Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Studies in Australian History) by Tom Griffiths in Front Matter
- Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia (Studies in Australian History) by Margaret Maynard in Front Matter
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