Australian History

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Across
  1. 6. aborigines suffered from whooping cough and small pox
  2. 7. Australia’s largest natural resource
  3. 9. most powerful person in government because he or she is the leader of the parliament.
  4. 10. a colony for prisoners
  5. 11. sheep ranches that spread across the country’s hot, dry outback
  6. 13. a settler who chartered the east coast and claimed it for Britain
  7. 15. an island state that is part of the common wealth of Australia
  8. 16. the dry lands of Australia
Down
  1. 1. to become similar to the things around you
  2. 2. the language spoken in Australia
  3. 3. earliest inhabitants of Australia
  4. 4. a penal colony that later became Tasmania
  5. 5. government by the people
  6. 8. someone who settles on land with a right to do so
  7. 12. men and women who came to Australia as prisoners
  8. 14. the smallest continent in the world