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A Hop Through Australia's History

1770FAST FOREWORD
1787ALL ABOARD
1787THE FIRST FLEET STATISTICS
1787THE INCREDIBLE HULKS
1788AUSTRALIA DAY
1788AUSTRALIA NIGHT
1790THE YEAR OF HUNGER
1804THE CASTLE HILL REBELLION
1806THE RUM REBELLION
1807BILLY BLIGH
1818THE BIGGE REPORT
1820TERROR AUSTRALIS
1825ABORIGINAL REBELS
1830JOHN MACARTHUR ~ HOME ON THE SHEEP'S BACK
1835JOHN BATMAN
1835SHE'LL BE APPLES
1838MASSACRE OF ABORIGINES
1840TEN LITTLE GOVERNORS
1842CAROLINE CHISHOLM
1844LEGENDARY LEICHHARDT
1851VICTORIAN GOLD
1854THE EUREKA STOCKADE
1859-1951OUR HUNDRED YEAR WAR
1861BURKE AND WILLS AND WRIGHT AND BRAHE
1861OUR GOOD OLD DISCOVERERS
1867ROYAL VISIT
1872W. C. WENTWORTH DIES
1880THE MAN IN THE IRON CASK
1881MABEL WAS I ERE I SAW MELBA
1885WAR IN THE SUDAN
1890THE GREAT MARITIME STRIKE
1893THE CRASH OF THE 1890'S
1894WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE VOTE
1899WE'RE OFF TO KILL THE BOERS
1915GALLIPOLI
1916SO TOLD ME MRS DUNN
1916-1954THE STRANGE HISTORY OF THE LIBERAL PARTY
1922POOR HENRY DIES
1928CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH
1929-1931PHAR LAP: THE PHACTS
1932JACK AND THE LIONS
1932THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE OPENS
1936DONALD BRADMAN'S FIRST TRIUMPH
1939PIG IRON BOB
1942THE BOMBING OF THE NORTH
1943NANCY WAKE GOES TO FRANCE
1946-1972THE SNOWY MAN
1948ALBERT NAMATJIRA BECOMES KNOWN
1954THE PETROV AFFAIR
1954WHEN THE FACE ON THE MONEY WAS HERE
1965ROBERT MENZIES RETIRES
1965-1972THE VIETNAM WAR
1965-2000LIBERAL LEADERS
1966JORG UTZON AND THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
1966THE AMERICANISATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURRENCY
1975THE WHITLAM SACKING
1976THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY ENDS
1979THE DINGO'S CHRISTMAS
1986KIRRIBILLI
1991KEATING'S LAMENT
1991THE TWELVE SONS OF MOTHER LABOR
1993AUSSIE KEATING GOES A-CLEANING
1993DANCING THE MABO
2000REPUBLIC BID 2000
2000THE PEST POEM
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1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith

Smithy the Pilot
    The man of no fuss
Flew up to Heaven
    In his Old Bus.

Once up in Heaven
    What a tableau!
There was the U.S. coast
    Fading below.

Crossing the ocean
    He headed south west
Three Fokker motors
    Roaring with zest.

Charles flew to Hawaii,
    Flew to Fiji
Reaching Australia
    To one huge cooee.

Oakland to Sydney
    Had Smithy traversed,
In eighty-three hours,
    An absolute first.


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