Honeschooled Ver. 2.1

posting is easy

Here’s a list of some of the people we have discovered when we researched Australian history. We each need to choose 1 to focus on.They are -

•  Albert Namatjira - Aboriginal artist
• Truganini - Last full blooded Tasmanian aborigine
• Peter Lalor - leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade
• Ned Kelly - famous/infamous bushranger
• David Unaipon - Aboriginal inventor and on the $50 note
• Captain Thunderbolt - bushranger who escaped from prison
• Dame Edith Cowan - first female politician and woman’s right activist
• Sir Douglas Mawson - explorer of the Antarctic
• Dame Nellie Melba - famous opera singer
• Captain Cook - leader of the British expedition to Australia
• Burke and Wills - two leaders of the expedition through the middle of Australia
• Matthew Flinders - first person to sail all the way around Australia (and he took his cat with him too)
• John Simpson Kilpatrick - with his donkey helped wounded soldiers during the Great War
• Banjo Patterson - famous poet, writer and journalist
• William Buckley - escaped convict who spent 32 years living with the Aborigines near Melbourne
• John Batman - created Melbourne
• Caroline Chisholm - leader of female rights 
• Sir John Monash - leader of Australian troops during the Great War
•  Henry Parkes - called the “father” of Australian federation
• Edmund Barton - first prime minister