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- Aborigine
- An indigenous inhabitant esp. as contrasted with an invading or colonizing people
- convict
- A person serving a prison sentence usu. for a long time
- penal colony
- A code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment
- uncharted
- Not recorded or plotted on a map, chart, or plan
- continent
- One of the great divisions of land (N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, or Antartica)
- squatter
- One that settles on land without right or title or payment of rent. 2) One that settles on public land under government regulation with the purpose of acquiring title
- gold rush
- A thronging of people usu. to a new place and in search of gold
- kangaroo
- Any of various herbivorous leaping marsupial mammals of Australia with a small head, long powerful hind legs, and a long thick tail used as a support and in balancing
- wombat
- any of several stocky burrowing Australian marsupials resembling small bears
- cockatoo
- Any of numerous large noisy usu. showy and crested chiefly Australasian parrots
- federation
- The formation of a federal union. A union of organizations
- marsupial
- Any of an order of lowly mammals comprising kangaroos, opossums, and related animals that have a pouch on the abdomen of the female containing the teats and serving to carry the young
- tiger snake
- A highly venemous brown and yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania
- internal affairs
- A division of a law enforcement agency which investigates incidents and plausible suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force
- redistribute
- To distribute again in a different way; reallocate
- taipan snake
- Largest and most poisonous snake in Australia
- echidna
- A spiny-coated toothless burrowing egg-laying mammal of Australia with a tapering snout and long tongue for eating ants
- platypus
- A small aquatic egg-laying mammal of southern and eastern Australia and Tasmania with a fleshy bill resembling that of a duck, webbed feet, and a broad flattened tail
- koala
- An Australian arboreal marsupial that has large hairy ears, gray fur, and no tail and feeds on eucalyptus leaves
- wallaby
- Any of various small or medium-sized usu. brightly colored kangaroos native to Australia
- kookaburra
- An Australian kingfisher that is about the size of a crow and has a call resembling loud laughter
- acacia
- Any of numerous woody plants of the legume family with ball-shaped white or yellow flower clusters and often pinnate leaves
- eucalyptus
- Any of a genus of mostly Australian evergreen trees of the myrtle family including many that are widely cultivated for their gums, resins, oils, and useful woods