Australian Society and Environment: Year 4

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Pascal Press, 2004 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 114 pages
For children aged 9 to 10 years or year 4. It covers the history of discovering Australia and the explorers for each state. It then focuses on the environment and the local communities and local council structures.

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Contents

The Dutch visit the Great South Land
1
CULTURE
2
Cook and the east coast
4
Aboriginal resistance
11
Way of life of early settlers
14
The effects of colonisation on Indigenous peoples
17
Australias first successful farmer
20
Review
23
Queensland major features
66
Bass Strait island communities
69
Modifying the environment
72
Review SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES 1 Local councils 2
76
Suppliers of goods in communities 3
81
Your community services 4
84
Cooperation in communities
87
Producers and consumers responsibilities
90

The first European migrants
25
Early settlement Victoria
27
Aboriginal communities before colonisation
30
Torres Strait Island communities 4
33
5
36
Early settlement Queensland
37
6
39
Our heritage
44
Early settlement Northern Territory
47
Early settlement Western Australia
50
Review ENVIRONMENT
54
Spotlight on a local community
57
New South Wales major features
60
Victoria major features
63
4
64
Major advances in the twentieth century
92
Recent technological change
96
Money and our community
99
4
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7
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17
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