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Evidence of Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back some 30,000 years. Rock painting at Ubirr in Kakadu National Park.

9.3 Economic growth and suburban living.9.1 Menzies and Liberal dominance: 1949–72.5.1 White Australia, protectionism and rise of Labor.4.1.1 Towards representative government.4.1 Colonial self-government and the gold rushes.3.6 Impact of British settlement on Indigenous population.3.2.1 Establishment of the colony: 1788 to 1792.Supported by immigration of people from almost every country in the world since the end of World War II, the population increased to more than 25.5 million by 2020, with 30 per cent of the population born overseas. Trade with Asia increased and a post-war immigration program received more than 6.5 million migrants from every continent. Australia fought on the side of Britain in the two world wars and became a long-standing ally of the United States when threatened by Imperial Japan during World War II. The colonies voted by referendum to unite in a federation in 1901, and modern Australia came into being. Autonomous parliamentary democracies began to be established throughout the six British colonies from the mid-19th century. Gold rushes and agricultural industries brought prosperity. Aboriginal people were greatly weakened and their numbers diminished by introduced diseases and conflict with the colonists during this period. In the century that followed, the British established other colonies on the continent, and European explorers ventured into its interior. The First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 to establish a penal colony, the first colony on the Australian mainland. He returned to London with accounts favouring colonisation at Botany Bay (now in Sydney). Other European explorers followed until, in 1770, Lieutenant James Cook charted the east coast of Australia for Great Britain. Macassan trepangers visited Australia's northern coasts after 1720, possibly earlier. Twenty-nine other Dutch navigators explored the western and southern coasts in the 17th century and named the continent New Holland. Later that year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, what is now called Torres Strait and associated islands.

The first known landing in Australia by Europeans was in 1606 by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon.

The first Torres Strait Islanders - ethnically and culturally distinct from the Aboriginal people - arrived from what is now Papua New Guinea around 2,500 years ago, and settled in the islands of the Torres Strait and the Cape York Peninsula forming the northern tip of the Australian landmass. The artistic, musical and spiritual traditions they established are among the longest surviving such traditions in human history. People first arrived on the Australian mainland by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and penetrated to all parts of the continent, from the rainforests in the north, the deserts of the centre, and the sub-Antarctic islands of Tasmania and Bass Strait. The history of Australia is the story of the land and peoples of the continent of Australia.