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A little investigation - very little - turned up this article which puts everything into place & perspective
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Twenty Third day of the month of October throughout the not-so-many eons of Oz history
1786 - Barron Field, who claimed to be the first poet of Australia *ahem* and was for a number of years an actual judge in New South Wales...
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1817 HMSC Mermaid was commissioned on this day ; the Mermaid was the infamous boat in which Phillip Parker King surveyed and chartered the c... -
1800 - Napoleon issued instructions to Baudin and Hamelin, who sailed in the Geographe and the Naturaliste, to explore the east and south ... -
1790 – HMS Supply returned from Batavia with more supplies for the colony. 1847 The forced exile of Tasmanian Aboriginal People to Wybalenn...
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