Sir John Monash was a great Australian. In terms of importance to Australian history, he is head and shoulders above the pack for his achievements in defeating tyranny and fighting for democracy.

After Federation the Lord Mayor of Sydney started a fund to buy a Dreadnought Battle ship for Australia's defence. When war broke out Australia organised its own Navy. Afer the war, farm labour was short so the money was used to bring British boys to Australia to work on farms.

A history of the Founding Agencies of MacKillop Family Services

Bushranger Ned Kelly (born 1854/1855) was hanged on 11 November 1880.

In June 1927, the film version of Marcus Clarke's novel 'For the Term of His Natural Life' premiered in Australia.

In 1915 Australian-born physicist, William Lawrence Bragg and his father William Henry Bragg won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Over the last 129 years the finest place to shop in Melbourne has undoubtedly been Georges on Collins.

In 1545 the first known use of the name 'Australia' appeared in a German astronomical work, Astronomia-Teutsch Astronomei.

Captained by Willem Janszoon, the Dutch ship Duyfken (Little Dove) recorded the first confirmed European sighting of Australia in 1606.

On the first of his three voyages of discovery (1768-71), Captain James Cook charted the east coast of New Holland in the Endeavour.

The revolt by Britain's American colonies in July 1776 focused public and political interest on the possible use of New South Wales as a penal colony.

At the end of the last Ice Age, between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago, the sea level rose and flooded through The Heads between Point Nepean and Point Lonsdale.