Hello.
Today I'm going to talk about the first English settlement in Victoria.
But first I'm going to talk about the Gunditjmara people that lived in Portland before the English arrived.

The Gunditjmara people who lived in Portland farmed eels and fish, they created dams and wetlands so they could farm the eels and fish in, they also created channels to link the dams and wetlands together, and they even built stone huts in which they lived.

From the late 1820's to the early 1830's, whaling and sealing was a very popular job 'coz it paid well, but one of the best places to whale and seal was around the south of  Victoria.
There was also a big demand of land for farming and Settling.

So, in 1800 Lieutenant James Grant went to Portland to see what he could see and then he named it, and then in the early 1830's, a few Settler's settled in Portland.
They also had the main whaling industry with them, and they both helped make the whale and seal stations.
Along with the whaling and sealing industry, there was a family called the Henty's who were one of the first families to have grazing land and they were also one of the first families to have sheep and cattle to farm.
The explorer Thomas Mitchell found the Henty settlement with about 200 people living there, even though Victoria wasn't  supposed to be settled.

After the Bush Aliens were wiped out, everyone was partying.

But, there was one small thing everyone forgot, how did the Bush Aliens come back to life in the Middle Ages?

Deep in the forests of Australia, where no one has come out alive, the camp of the female Bush Aliens were doing a lucky dip, if there was "MALE" written on a piece of paper, the females would turn into a Male('coz all the males were fighting that war, and if all the males are gone, some of the females turn into a male), but if it said "FEMALE", then she would stay like that.

The partying stopped at one of the houses in the country town where the Bush Aliens had been wiped out, 'coz there was a panting at the door.
Then, crashing through the windows were Ten Bush Aliens.
The owner of the house used his gun on them, but it didn't work, 'coz the Bush Aliens can Evolve very quickly, so their hides had become as tough as steel.

Everyone tried to hide, but they were all eaten.
At the end of the night, no one was alive in that town.

"On the News tonight, a whole town has been wiped out by the Bush Aliens and all the neighbouring towns have been wiped out.
Police are saying that if they get into the city, it's game over, there will be no one left alive."

To be countinued...

Hello.

Last night I saw a show called TWO IN THE TOP END( if you want to learn more about it, then click the high-lighted words).

It's a really good show about two good mates, Tim Flannery and John Doyle, going around in the top end of Australia.
Last night they went to a town called Normanton (this link will tell you more about the town), and there was this great big, full-scale model of this Croc that was shot in 1957, and it was the size of a small car!
It was shot by a woman called Krys and that's what they called the croc.

They also went along a beach that had been turned to stone, and it looked like a normal beach!
When they got on their hands and knees, they got a big hunk of it out, and the sand turned out not to be sand, but millions of tiny crushed shells and normal shells.
The shells were cemented together by calcium from fresh water and sea water mixing with the sand.

They went to a place called Riversleigh and showed a fossil of a croc's skull that was in a rock. They said that the croc was thousands of years old and that it ate differently to salt water croc's today. The fossil croc would slice hunks of meat off it's prey instead of doing a death roll like they do today.

Hello.

I'm going to explain what a DONKEY VOTE is, and I'm also going to talk about a Tsunami that hit Sydney and also hit NZ in 1868.

But first I'm going to talk about what a DONKEY VOTE is, and no, it's not where a Donkey vote's for equal rights that we humans get.

The DONKEY VOTE  is when the Candidates are put down on the Ballot from say, A to D, without the voter taking time to put them in the order that they really want to vote for them.

Now I'm going to talk about the Tsunami that hit NZ and Sydney in 1868.
In August 1868, an Earthquake that was 9.0, went off on the Peru–Chile border and caused a lot of damage.
After the Earthquake went off, it caused a massive Tsunami that hit NZ.
It caused a lot of damage and death on the Chatham Islands and Banks Peninsula.
When it reached Newcastle it, " Moved ships as heavy as 1000 tons to and fro" now, that's got to be a big Tsunami!
It even caused waves 5 feet high!
It also moved those 1000 tone ships on to sandbanks and wharves!
Imagine that, seeing a 1000 tone ship thrown on to a wharf as if a two year old through it into a toy box or something!
It snapped the ferry ropes in Sydney and made the ferry spin around.
It just shows you what kind of power Mother Nature can have.
And in Wollongong Harbour, the water fell 4 feet, and passers by took advantage and started picking up the Lobsters that had been caught in the open!
Adelaide had huge waves, too.
Talk about a free feed, it just shows that it wasn't that bad after all.   

Hello.

Today I learnt a bit more about the history of Australian voting.

I found out that the old way of electing some one was called SHOW OF HANDS, and that to elect someone in this way, you had to raise your hand.
The down side was, other people would know who you voted for, and might not speak to you anymore if they didn't agree with you.

When the secret ballot came, people didn't know who you were voting for, but the thing is, the candidate that has the most votes sometimes doesn't have more then 50%.

Preferential voting was next, all you did was put down 1 to 4.
The candidate that you didn't like the most, you put 4 next to it, the one you did like the most, you put 1 next to.

And so that's what I learnt about voting today.

Yesterday we had an earthquake up at Hervey bay, in QLD and that was 2.7 on the magnitude scale.
We also had another two this year in September.
One of the others was on the 5th of September and it was up in Howes Valley in NSW, and it was 3.2.
The other one was on the 4th of September and it was up in Pyramid Hill, Vic, and that was 2.2.

See ya tomorrow.

Hullo.

I'm going to talk about the history of voting in Australia.

In 1856 the secret ballot was first used for private voting.

Then in 1895 Women in South Australia for the first time were allowed to vote, but the strange thing is, those who didn't like it said it would break up marriages.

In 1901 the first Federal election was held, and Edmund Barton was in it. He was our first Prime Minister.

In 1902 it turned out that Aborigines weren't allowed to vote, and it also turned out that Australia was one of the first places in the world for women to vote and stand for parliament. New Zealand was the first place where women were allowed to vote.

In 1911 it became compulsary to enroll to vote if you were over 21.

In the 1918 election for the first time you had to order your favourite MP to your least favourite.

In 1924 it became compulsary to vote in all elections.

In 1925 we had the first Fedral election to have compulsary voting. So everyone over the age of 21 had to vote.

In 1949 Aborigines were allowed to vote if they had served in WW2 and they were also able to vote in the state elections.

In 1962 all Aborigines were allowed to vote.

In 1973 the voting age became 18 instead of 21.

So, now you know a bit more about Australian voting.
So, see ya soon.

Hello.

Sorry I haven't been blogging lately, it's just that I've been a bit busy.

Now, what was I going to blog about?
Oh yes, I was going to blog about an article that explained how the Aborigines got the right to vote.
Now, to start this all off, I'm going to have a quote from HERE

Here it is: "Before white people arrived in Australia, Aborigines and
Torres Strait Islanders were governed by laws which were
laid down by the creative ancestral beings."
But, with the British laws, it was very, very different.
The two main big differences Is:
1. Aborigines didn't elect their leaders, where as the 18th century people did( and yes, I know it was only the rich who could elect their leaders).
2. The Aborigines followed laws that had been set down 1000's of years ago, but the British made their laws.

And here's a fact, the British only put in their laws if they didn't think the native people of that land they settled on didn't have a law of their own.

Anyway the Aborigines didn't get to vote at first 'coz they weren't British, but as Federation came, they were allowed to vote 'coz Australia wasn't under British rule.

But after the law that Aborigines could vote was passed, Australia had Federation and a new law saying that any Aborigine who turned 21 after 1901 could not vote and the Electoral Officials that had the power to say who was native and who wasn't.

Now, just imagine first not being able to vote, then you are, and then they change their mind?
It would be horrible.

Here's another quote from HERE:

"In 1925, as a result of pressure from Britain and India, some
non-white people were granted the right to vote in Australian
elections."
So, finally!
Some states let Indigenous people have the right to vote, except they didn't encourage them to enrol.
And then after WW2, people who had Fourt in it were allowed to vote in Australia.

Then in 1967 Australians voted for Indigenous people in the census for laws for the Indigenous people benefit.

Democracy is when the general public holds all the power and can freely elect the government of their choice.

Democracy is people voting for Aborigines to be included in the census.

As Wonder-Cat, Bad-kitty and Dog-Bone Found themselves in the cage, they spotted a metal object moving in the shadows.
But there were lots of what ever they were, and whatever they were were circling the cage.

When the lights were turned on, they saw that they were metal spiders, with the brains in the glass orbs that were the heads.
And the mice caves, that the mice called it, were under the house of the man that created the SPIDERS FROM HELL.

To be continued.

Hello.

I'm going to talk about a game I played called Trugo, and I'm going to talk about two books I read called CALLIE'S CASTLE and CALLIE'S FAMILY.

But first I'm going to talk about Trugo.
Trugo is a sport invented in the railway repair workshops of Newport in the Western suburbs of Melbourne by railway workers in the 1920s.
To play the game, you need a great big wooden mallet, and some rubber rings that look like hockey pucks.
You play it on a giant green that looks a bit like a bowls green.
There are some wooden poles at each end, and if you get the rubber ring through, you get a point.
If you want to learn a bit more about it, click here.

And now I'm going to talk about CALLIE'S FAMILY and about CALLIE'S CASTLE by Ruth Park.
CALLIE'S CASTLE is about a girl that gets her own room away from her brothers and sister in a hidden room at the top of the house.
CALLIE'S FAMLY is a few years after, when her sister finds a secret pasage under the house, and when her youngest brother goes to Denmark.
And I think anyone would like them.

See ya soon!