Did anything historically interesting happen here?
A kangaroo got beaten up by a kiwi once.
>>857868
Great emu war was a fairly got meme.
Not much else desu, South Africa is a much more interesting hell hole ex colony
>>857868
the war between orcs and men
The Maori Wars are pretty interesting.
One of history's most interesting cases of a man's ascension to godlike status happened here
Lord of the Rings
What do you define as interesting?
Australia has a very interesting social and cultural history rather than military history.
All that's ever taught in Australia about Australian "history"
>Natives were there for 40,000 years
>Colonialism
>Gold Rush
>Federation
>ANZACs and Galipoli
>Stolen Generation
>White Australia
>A bit on WWII
Only Galipoli is interesting, but it doesn't need an Australian perspective
Our prime ministers are so uninteresting that arguably are most famous one is the PM who disappeared, Harold Holt.
>>857894
Don't forget Gough.
>>857894
>rum rebellion
>black war in Tasmania
>Starving convict William Buckley wandering into an aboriginal camp on the Mornington Peninsula luckily grabbing a grave spear and thought to be an ancestor returned from the grave, lives with aboriginals for over a decade in Victoria and forgets most English, in later life gives most thorough account of pre-contact Koori people.
>Chinese pogroms
>Kelly Gang
>Eureka Stockade
>failed Burke and Wills expedition to cross from Adelaide to the top of Northern Territory
