[Editor: “The story of Australia” was a series of articles, about aspects of Australian history, written by Martin Hambleton and published in The Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld.), from 17 June 1934 to 30 June 1935. Hambleton based a large part of the series upon articles which he had previously written for The Sunday Mail.]
The story of Australia
Chapter 1: Foundation of Tasmania: Convicts sent from mainland
Chapter 2: Coming of the Dutch
Chapter 3: Captain William Dampier: First Englishman to visit Australia
Chapter 4: Captain James Cook: The real discoverer of Australia
Chapter 5: Arrival of the first fleet: Convict settlement at Sydney Cove
Chapter 6: Voyages of La Perouse: Lost hero all the world honoured
Chapter 7: Food shortage worries the colony: Agricultural settlement at Parramatta
Chapter 8: Voyages of Bass and Flinders: The discovery of Bass Strait
Chapter 9: Flinders’ coastal discoveries
Chapter 10: Rise of the wool industry: John Macarthur’s work for Australia
Chapter 11: Foundation of Tasmania: First settled by convicts and soldiers
Chapter 12: Blaxland’s journeys of exploration: Blue Mountains conquered
Chapter 13: George William Evans: Discovers the Lachlan and Macquarie
Chapter 14: Expeditions of John Oxley: Discovery of Liverpool Plains
Chapter 15: Search for new penal settlement: Oxley discovers the Brisbane River
Chapter 16: Discoveries of Hume and Hovell
Chapter 17: Captain Charles Sturt: Discovery of the Darling River
Chapter 18: Discovery of the Murray: Sturt’s heroic achievement
Chapter 19: Allan Cunningham discovers the Darling Downs
Chapter 20: Sir Thomas Mitchell: Search for a mythical river
Chapter 21: Mitchell’s second journey: Exploration of the Darling River
Chapter 22: Mitchell’s third journey: The Darling joins the Murray
Chapter 23: Mitchell’s last expedition: Discovery of rich pastoral country
Chapter 24: Edward John Eyre: Daring Australian explorer
Chapter 25: Kennedy’s ill-fated expedition
Chapter 26: Sturt’s attempt to reach the centre of the continent
Chapter 27: Leichhardt’s expedition to Port Essington
Chapter 28: Leichhardt’s journey to death
Chapter 29: Stuart reaches the centre of Australia
Chapter 30: Stuart’s journey across Australia
Chapter 31: Burke and Wills expedition
Chapter 32: A grim fight for life
Chapter 33: Last scenes of Burke and Wills tragedy
Chapter 34: Further efforts to find Burke and Wills
Chapter 35: John Forrest’s first journey of exploration
Chapter 36: Forrest’s second and third expeditions
Chapter 37: Three notable explorers: Gregory, Warburton, and Giles
Chapter 38: Foundation of Tasmania: Convicts sent from mainland
Chapter 39: Settlement of Tasmania: Early bushrangers: Hostile Blacks
Chapter 40: Tasmania as a penal settlement
Chapter 41: The settlement of Western Australia
Chapter 42: Difficulties of settlement in Western Australia
Chapter 43: The settlement of Port Phillip
Chapter 44: The founding of township of Melbourne
Chapter 45: The settlement of South Australia
Chapter 46: Troublesome times in South Australia
Chapter 47: Redcliffe chosen for first settlement
Chapter 48: First settlement on the Brisbane River
Chapter 49: Discovery of gold
Chapter 50: The Ballarat gold rush of 1851
Chapter 51: Digger hunting on the goldfields
Chapter 52: The Eureka rebellion: Diggers take up arms against police and military
Chapter 53: First overland telegraph
Editor’s notes:
Chapter 38 (“Foundation of Tasmania: Convicts sent from mainland”, published 17 March 1935), was a duplication of chapter 11 (“Foundation of Tasmania: First settled by convicts and soldiers”, published 26 August 1934).
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