From the preface:
The aim of this book is to give young readers, in a form interesting and easy to follow, a clear and straightforward conception of how the settlement of 1788 has developed and expanded into the Australia of to-day. It is designed, not as a skeleton date-book, but as a simple and inspiring record, in chronological sequence, of the great events in the building of our Commonwealth.
Contents:
Finding Australia
The English and Australia
The First Australian Colony
Early Governors
Brighter Days under Governor MacQuarie
Politics and Exploration – New Colonies
Self-Government and Some Fatal Expeditions
More Colonies: Gold: Explorers
Material Development
Commonwealth of Australia
Defence, and the War
Literature and Invention
Chronological Table
Index
