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Agnes Mcwhinnie RoutledgeAge: 791858–1937

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Agnes Mcwhinnie Routledge
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Agnes Mcwhinnie
Surname
Routledge
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Birth 26 May 1858 29 29
 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death of a maternal grandfather 20 November 1858 (Age 5 months)
 Airelyick Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

maternal grandfather - William Brown
Australian History 1858
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Death of a maternal grandmother 24 May 1859 (Age 11 months)
 Airelick, Mochrum, Scotland

maternal grandmother - Jean Campbell
Australian History 1859 (Age 7 months)
 

Note: SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.
Note: Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded
Note: Queensland separates from New South Wales with its western border at 141 degrees E.
Birth of a sister 28 August 1860 (Age 2)
 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Margaret Routledge
Australian History 1860 (Age 19 months)
 

Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.
Australian History 1861 (Age 2)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Birth of a sister 27 June 1862 (Age 4)
 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Catherine Routledge
Australian History 1862 (Age 3)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 4)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a brother 16 July 1864 (Age 6)
 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - William Routledge
Birth of a sister 2 October 1866 (Age 8)
 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Janet Routledge
Australian History 1867 (Age 8)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a sister 27 September 1868 (Age 10)
 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Helen Routledge
Australian History 1868 (Age 9)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 10)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a sister 3 July 1870 (Age 12)
 Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Mary Routledge
Australian History 1872 (Age 13)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 14)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 16)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Australian History 1878 (Age 19)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 20)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 21)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Census 4 April 1881 (Age 22)
 Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Note: Farmers Dau unmar 22 bn Mochrum WIG
Australian History 1882 (Age 23)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Death of a sister 5 April 1883 (Age 24)
 Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger sister - Mary Routledge
Australian History 1883 (Age 24)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a sister 21 October 1886 (Age 28)
 Mochrum?, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Helen Routledge
Australian History 1887 (Age 28)
 

Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne.
Australian History 1889 (Age 30)
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Australian History 1890 (Age 31)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Census 5 April 1891 (Age 32)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Note: age 32 892 007 9
Australian History 1891 (Age 32)
 

Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.
Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted.
Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status
Note: A severe depression hits Australia
Australian History 1892 (Age 33)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 34)
 

Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.
Australian History 1894 (Age 35)
 

Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.
Australian History 1895 (Age 36)
 

Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.
Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland
Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River
Australian History 1896 (Age 37)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 38)
 

Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year.
Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia.
Australian History 1898 (Age 39)
 

Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.
Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join.
Death of a mother 4 June 1899 (Age 41)
 Elrig, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

mother - Jane Brown
Australian History 1899 (Age 40)
 

Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.
Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world.
Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War.
Australian History 1900 (Age 41)
 

Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution.
Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent
Census 31 March 1901 (Age 42)
 

Australian History 1901 (Age 42)
 

Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General
Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne
Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy
Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time
Australian History 1902 (Age 43)
 

Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles.
Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag.
Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered
Australian History 1903 (Age 44)
 

Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.
Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army
Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister
Australian History 1904 (Age 45)
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Australian History 1906 (Age 47)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 49)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History 1909 (Age 50)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 51)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 52)
 

Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded
Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia
Note: The first national census is conducted.
Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed.
Australian History 1912 (Age 53)
 

Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time
Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra
Australian History 1913 (Age 54)
 

Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'.
Australian History 1913 (Age 54)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 55)
 

Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's.
Death of a father 18 February 1915 (Age 56)
 Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

father - William Routledge
Australian History 1915 (Age 56)
 

Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.
Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory.
Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia
Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister
Australian History 1916 (Age 57)
 

Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'
Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme.
Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded
Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected
Australian History 1917 (Age 58)
 

Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.
Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks.
Australian History 1918 (Age 59)
 

Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens
Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'.
Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V
Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead.
Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth.
Australian History 1919 (Age 60)
 

Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea.
Australian History 1920 (Age 61)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 62)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 63)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 64)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History 1926 (Age 67)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927 (Age 68)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928 (Age 69)
 

Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History 1929 (Age 70)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 71)
 

Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings
Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History 1931 (Age 72)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 73)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History 1933 (Age 74)
 

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Australian History 1936 (Age 77)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 78)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Death 14 October 1937 (Age 79)
 Mount Pleasant, Port William, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Family with parents - View family
father
William Routledge

Birth about 1829  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 18 February 1915 (Age 86)  Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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mother
Jane Brown

Birth about 1829 48 39  New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 4 June 1899 (Age 70)  Elrig, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Marriage: 26 June 1856 — Mochrum, Scotland
3 months
#1 elder sister
Jane Routledge

Birth 24 September 1856 27 27  Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#2 herself
Agnes Mcwhinnie Routledge

Birth 26 May 1858 29 29  Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 14 October 1937 (Age 79)  Mount Pleasant, Port William, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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2 years
#3 younger sister
Margaret Routledge

Birth 28 August 1860 31 31  Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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22 months
#4 younger sister
Catherine Routledge

Birth 27 June 1862 33 33  Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 16 January 1946 (Age 83)  Mount Pleasant, Port William, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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#5 younger brother
William Routledge

Birth 16 July 1864 35 35  Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#6 younger sister
Janet Routledge

Birth 2 October 1866 37 37  Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#7 younger sister
Helen Routledge

Birth 27 September 1868 39 39  Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 21 October 1886 (Age 18)  Mochrum?, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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21 months
#8 younger sister
Mary Routledge

Birth 3 July 1870 41 41  Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 5 April 1883 (Age 12)  Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Ayrshire, Scotland

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Agnes Mcwhinnie Routledge has 42 first cousins recorded

4 are on both sides of the family

Father's family (4)

Parents William Brown + Helen Routledge
1 William Mcturk Brown 1854–1938
2 Helen Brown 1861–1880
3 Thomas Brown 1865–1937
Parents George Brown + Margaret Routledge
1 George Brown 1863–?

Mother's family (38)

Parents William Brown + Helen Routledge
1 William Mcturk Brown 1854–1938
2 Helen Brown 1861–1880
3 Thomas Brown 1865–1937
Parents Hugh Templeton + Margaret Brown
1 David Templeton 1834–?
2 William Templeton 1836–1861
3 Elisabeth Templeton 1839–?
4 Andrew Pegan Templeton 1841–1918
5 John Thompson Templeton 1844–1921
6 Ivie Templeton 1847–?
7 Isabella Templeton 1850–?
8 Jane Templeton 1853–1864
9 Hugh Templeton 1855–1927
10 Margaret Templeton 1859–1901
Parents George Morrison + Janet Brown
1 James Morrison 1839–1908
2 William Morrison 1840–?
3 Ivie Campbell Morrison 1843–1849
4 Thomas Mcmillan Morrison 1845–1870
5 Christina Morrison 1847–1910
6 Jane Morrison 1850–1902
7 Ivie Morrison 1852–1875
Parents William McWhinnie + Mary Brown
1 Agnes Routledge McWhinnie 1843–?
2 William McWhinnie 1844–?
3 Jane McWhinnie 1847–?
4 Jane McWhinnie 1848–?
5 Helen McWhinnie 1850–?
6 Mary McWhinnie 1852–?
7 Margaret McWhinnie 1855–?
8 Alexander McWhinnie 1857–?
9 Isabella McWhinnie 1859–?
10 William McWhinnie 1862–?
Parents George Brown + Margaret Routledge
1 George Brown 1863–?
Parents Andrew Milligan + Elizabeth Brown
1 William Milligan 1850–?
2 Andrew Milligan 1852–1923
3 John Milligan 1856–1890
4 Ivie Milligan 1859–?
5 Alexander Milligan 1862–?
6 George Milligan 1865–1894
7 Elizabeth Milligan 1867–1889
 
Australian History
Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.

Australian History
SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.

Australian History
John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.

Australian History
The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.

Australian History
Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.

Australian History
South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.

Australian History
Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.

Australian History
The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.

Australian History
Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.

Australian History
Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.

Australian History
Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.

Australian History
SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.

Australian History
First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.

Australian History
The first congress of trade unions is held.

Australian History
The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.

Census
Farmers Dau unmar 22 bn Mochrum WIG

Australian History
First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.

Australian History
The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Australian History
An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne.

Australian History
The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Australian History
The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

Census
age 32 892 007 9

Australian History
A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.

Australian History
Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Australian History
The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.

Australian History
South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.

Australian History
The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.

Australian History
The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution

Australian History
In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year.

Australian History
The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.

Australian History
The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.

Australian History
Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution.

Australian History
(01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General

Australian History
The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles.

Australian History
The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.

Australian History
A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital

Australian History
Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

Australian History
Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country

Australian History
The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.

Australian History
Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.

Australian History
The Royal Australian Navy is founded

Australian History
Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time

Australian History
Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.

Australian History
The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place

Australian History
Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's.

Australian History
(25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.

Australian History
Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'

Australian History
Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.

Australian History
(08 AUG) Battle of Amiens

Australian History
Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea.

Australian History
The airline Qantas is founded

Australian History
Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

Australian History
The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History
Vegemite is first produced

Australian History
The first Miss Australia contest is held

Australian History
The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

Australian History
Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.

Australian History
Western Australia celebrates its centenary

Australian History
Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings

Australian History
Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia

Australian History
The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

Australian History
Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments

Australian History
The last Thylacine dies

Australian History
The radio series Dad and Dave begins


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