Multicultural+Timeline

**TIMELINE** **Tracing Australia's multicultural history**

1770: First Fleet

1788: Settlement of Australia by the British (January 26)

1839: First immigrants from Scotland arrive at Port Phillip

1901: Immigration Restriction Act 1901

1948: Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948

media type="file" key="someofma3_bb.mp4" width="312" height="312" align="center" 1951: Assisted migration arrangements with Italy, then Germany, Greece, Austria

1957: Albert Namatjira first Aboriginal to be granted Australian Citizenship

1975: Vietnamese Refugees

1975: Australia grants indepedence to Papua New Guinea

1992: Mabo case won: legal fiction of "Terra Nullius" overturned by High Court

1997: Pauline Hanson founded Australian ONE NATION political party

1999: "No" vote to referendum on Australian Republic: Harmony Day

2001: September 11 terrorist attack on World Trade Centre

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">2005: Cronulla Riots media type="youtube" key="B1jeWeDpc68" height="310" width="517" <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">2008: Kevin Rudd addresses Australia's past with a formal apology 'Australia Says Sorry' Speech.