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
If you have any more please submit them as a post and I’ll add them!
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May 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Mr.Hone can I do Sir John because I don’t Know much about thw great war.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Mr. Hone I want to do Captain Cook because I know neally nothing about him. I am interested on who found Australia.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Can i do Matthew Flinders because i do not know any thing about him?
May 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Mr. Hone I would like to do Caroline Chisholm because I don’t even know who she is and by you saying leader of female rights it seems she is an important person and someone worth studying. I am interested in her female rights and what she achieved.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Mr Hone may I do Banjo Patterson, I find him interesting because
I don’t yhink i heard of him before???
May 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Mr Hone can i do Captain Thunderbolt because i don’t know much about him but i know where i can find lots of research about him because i found this website about famous bushrangers.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Mr hone can i do John Simpson Kilpatrick because i know a bit about him but i would like to know more
May 8th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Mr hone i have actually changed my mind can i do Caroline Chisolm ? or do i have to stick to the one i picked before?
May 8th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Mr Hone I’d like to do Burke and Wills, even though I know a bit about them i’d still like to take the opputunity to do them. I think it will be good learning about Burke and Wills.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Mr Hone I would like to do Ned Kelly. But if I can’t then I could do Banjo Patterson ’cause I can find some poems that he has ’cause I have a book of the poems.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
mr hone i would like to do Peter Laylor because i have never heard of him before and he sounds interesting
May 8th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Mr Hone I would like to do Burke and Wills because I don’t really know anything about them, I would like to do it with Steph W.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
May 8th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
me and ben wont to do simpson and his donkey because he is cool.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
MR. HONE COULD I PLEASE DO PETER LAYLOR BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM! I KNOW HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE MINERS BUT I KNOW NOTHING ELSE ABOUT HIM!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Mr. Hone, can I please do Caroline Chisholm because I don’t know anything about her, I haven’t even heard of her. But it sounds interesting how she is the leader of female rights, and worth finding more about how she became the leader of female rights. I would like to do her because it sounds like an important part in history.