Hindmarsh was the son of John Hindmarsh, a gunner on HMS Bellerophon, and his wife Mary. He was baptized at St Mary's, Chatham, Kent.Naval career Hindmarsh joined the Royal Navy in 1793 serving on HMS ...
The winters between June and September are mild and wet, the summers usually warm and dry. Tempered by the ocean, particularly on the coastline, maximum temperatures in summer rarely exceed 35 degrees ...
The island is 150 km (93 mi) long and between 90 km (56 mi) and 57 km (35 mi) wide, its area covering 4,405 km2 (1,701 sq mi). Its coastline is 540 kilometres (340 mi) long and highest point is Mount ...
Letters patent are a form of open or public proclamation and a vestigial exercise of extra-parliamentary power by a monarch or president. Prior to the establishment of parliament, the monarch ruled ab ...
A draft piece of legislation is called a bill, when this is passed by Parliament it becomes an Act and part of statute law. There are two types of bill and Act, public and private. Public Acts apply t ...
A draft Act of Parliament is known as a bill.In territories with a Westminster system, most bills that have any possibility of becoming law are introduced into parliament by the government. This will ...
Royal Navy Rear-Admiral John Hindmarsh was selected to be South Australia's first governor. The first settlers and officials set sail in early 1836. A total of nine ships consisting of 636 people set ...
Main article: Prehistory of AustraliaAboriginal Family Travelling by W.A. Cawthorne.The first people to occupy the area now known as South Australia were Australian Aborigines. Their presence in north ...
The population of the Northern Territory at the 2011 Australian census was 211,945., a 10 per cent increase from the 2006 census. The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated a resident population of ...
Main article: History of the Northern TerritoryIndigenous Australians have lived in the present area of the Northern Territory for an estimated 40,000 years, and extensive seasonal trade links existed ...
The Port Phillip District was an historical administrative division of the Colony of New South Wales, which existed from September 1836 until 1 July 1851, when it was separated from New South Wales an ...
Batman's English parents, William and Mary Batman, came to Sydney in 1797 aboard the ship the Ganges. John was born in 1801 at Rosehill, Parramatta, now a suburb of Sydney, but at the time one of the ...
European settlement of Australia commenced in 1788. Prior to this, Indigenous Australians inhabited the continent and had unwritten laws, as documented in the case of the Yirrkala community.However, t ...
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Bourke was educated at Westminster and read law at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a cousin of Edmund Burke and spent school and university holidays at Burke's home, and acquire ...
First Colonial Office (1768 – 1782) Prior to 1768, responsibility for the affairs of the British colonies was part of the duties of the Secretary of State for the Southern Department and a committee ...
