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Despite the fact that the UK has a significant economic impact on Australia, the two countries continue to work closely together on a variety of issues. The United Kingdom and Australia share a long history of cooperation, including defense, trade, investment, and innovation, all of which are critical for the two countries’ future prosperity. How Did Australia Benefit From The British Empire? New South Wales, according to Arthur Phillip's amended Commission dated 25 April 1787, includes "all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean" and running westward to the 135th meridian east. These islands included the current islands of New Zealand, which was administered as part of New South Wales. [a] As a full-time traveller, and having been born in the UK, I am here to answer your question and provide a guide to Australia’s history with the United Kingdom. Is Australia Part Of The UK?

More than a hundred men who practised medicine are known to have been transported to Australia as convicts in the 80 years between 1788 and 1868. Medical qualifications were not standardised at the time, and many would have been unqualified. Many were not criminals in the true sense, but had been transported to New South Wales as a result of youthful, impetuous statements or actions in the wrong quarters. Three practitioners were recognised for their medical abilities and as founders of several institutions that developed as the settlement evolved from a gaol to a colony. D'Arcy Wentworth was a medical student in London who lived beyond his means and after being acquitted of highway robbery was advised to leave Great Britain and serve as assistant surgeon on a convict ship. He arrived in Sydney in 1790. In 1809 he was appointed Principal Surgeon of the colony. An entrepreneur, he acquired much wealth, including as one of the contractors of the notorious Rum Hospital and as a founder of the Bank of New South Wales. William Redfern had taken part in a mutiny and been sentenced to death, but instead was transported in 1801. To prove his surgical skills, which impressed the Governor, he was examined before three doctors and so became Australia's first medical graduate. He laid the foundations of the colony's public health and has been called the "father of Australian medicine". William Bland joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon's mate in 1809. An impetuous man, he threw a glass of water over the ship's purser and reluctantly participated in a pistol duel with the man, whom he killed. He was sentenced to seven years' transportation, arriving in 1814; he was pardoned a year later. In 1818, however, he was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment after writing insulting satires criticising Governor Macquarie. He was a democrat, favouring radical democracy and land reform, and worked in support of the poor throughout his subsequent political career. [97] [98] Culture [ edit ] Robert Hawker Dowling, a notable early artist famed for his paintings of Aboriginal people, 1860

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Phillip, Arthur. " digitised letter". 19: Letter from Arthur Phillip to the Marquis of Lansdowne, 3 July 1788, ID: SAFE/MLMSS 7241 (Safe 1/234). State Library of NSW. British imperialism‘s colonies in Australia received a significant amount of capital from British imperialism via land, banking, insurance, and other financial institutions. Some British money was invested in the industry. Until the outbreak of World War I, Australian industry had yet to fully develop. a b Cleary, Henry (1907). "Australia". In Knight, Kevin (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013 . Retrieved 12 July 2013. Australia was a continent with no opposition and no land that the British could easily occupy. The remoteness and harshness were exactly what the old country needed when it wanted to export its most troublesome commodities, namely criminals and undesirables. Australia’s position as a penal colony made it an ideal location. The harsh realities of prison life and the settling of conflicts with fists gave prisoners the strength to live their lives. The theft of less than a shilling, for example, may land you in Australia for a first offense. Despite the fact that most crimes today are mild in comparison to previous generations, tough people are still capable of doing so. Originally, the Australian penal colony was conceived as a British colonial establishment. I would like to thank Frank Bongiorno, Marjory Harper and Rachel Bright for reading earlier drafts of this review. Its contents and any errors herein are, naturally, my own. Notes

Such issues raise the problem of the meaning of empire found in the volumes. At least four approaches can be found in the various contributions, often reflecting dominant approaches within the particular sub-disciplines. Some treat empire as synonymous with almost any connection to Britain, others focus on the institutions of governance and regulation, and still others concentrate on imperialismor (more frequently) Britishness as a set of ideas. Most contributors on connections with Britain, and Britishness as a component of emerging Australian and Canadian identities. This begs questions, especially in the context of Ward and Schreuder’s distinction between Britain and the ‘world wide British empire’. Given the ongoing debate about the centrality of empire in British identities and cultures, is it entirely disingenuous to ask whether a connection with British, or a British identity, is necessarily imperial? Furthermore, different assumptions about the nature of empire can produce very different analyses and conclusions. As a result it is hard to draw too many general conclusions about the impact of empire in Australia and Canada when the contributors are often describing different phenomena. Hull, Gillian (1 July 2001). "From Convicts to Founding Fathers—Three notable Sydney Doctors". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 94 (7): 358–361. doi: 10.1177/014107680109400715. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 1281607. PMID 11418713. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. Reece, R H W (2019). "Yagan (1795–1833)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538 . Retrieved 15 September 2020. From 1788 until the 1850s, the governance of the colonies, including most policy decision-making, was largely in the hands of the governors, who were directly responsible to the government in London ( Home Office until 1794; War Office until 1801; and War and Colonial Office until 1854). [1] The first governor of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip, was given executive and legislative powers to establish courts, military forces, fight enemies, give out land grants, and regulate the economy. [1] [52] When the Bellona transport came to anchor in Sydney Cove on 16 January 1793, she brought with her the first immigrant free settlers. They were: Thomas Rose, a farmer from Dorset, his wife and four children; he was allowed a grant of 120 acres; Frederic Meredith, who had formerly been at Sydney with HMS Sirius; Thomas Webb (who had also been formerly at Sydney with the Sirius), his wife, and his nephew, Joseph Webb; Edward Powell, who had formerly been at Sydney with the Juliana transport, and who married a free woman after his arrival. Thomas Webb and Edward Powell each received a grant of 80 acres; and Joseph Webb and Frederic Meredith received 60 acres each.

Memo. of matters to be brought before Cabinet’, State Library of New South Wales, Dixon 12Library Add. MS Q522 Macquarie also played a leading role in the economic development of New South Wales by employing a planner to design the street layout of Sydney and commissioning the construction of roads, wharves, churches, and public buildings. He sent explorers out from Sydney and, in 1815, a road across the Blue Mountains was completed, opening the way for large scale farming and grazing in the lightly-wooded pastures west of the Great Dividing Range. [80] [81] British settlement led to a decline in the Aboriginal population and the disruption of their cultures due to introduced diseases, violent conflict and dispossession of their traditional lands. Aboriginal resistance to British encroachment on their land often led to reprisals from settlers including massacres of Aboriginal people. Many Aboriginal people, however, sought an accommodation with the settlers and established viable communities, often on small areas of their traditional lands, where many aspects of their cultures were maintained.