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Melbourne

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May 22nd 2015
Hi everyone, today we visited 'The Immigration Museum' on Flinders Street, it is a beautiful building, which used to be the Old Customs House. We read stories about immigrates coming to Victoria, starting with people leaving their own countries and how they settled in Australia down to the issues they had to deal with such as the different cultures, racist behaviour, language barriers and the diff ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more