ATS2269 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: British Passport
15 Oct 2018
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Australia was never entirely cut off from the rest of the world. Indigenous people in the north-west traded with macassan (now indonesian) traders centuries before european settlement. The macassans went to trade with china so there was an australian- No such thing as australia" until its federation in 1901. British troops were in australian colonies until the 1870s. First time australian troops go overseas is in 1885 to sudan (in africa). Sent there to back britain who backed egypt who were a semi-colony. What happened in sudan had very little impact on australia, they weren"t involved due to self-interest. But it did signify australia"s commitment to the. Correlation between empire strength and australian strength. Britain was the major superpower in the 1800s and the empire was global ( the sun never set on the british empire") Australia is distant from other countries and other parts of the empire which creates feelings of insecurity.
