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The last convict ship to arrive in Australia, the Hougoumont, docked at Fremantle, Western Australia on January 10th, 1868.

In the ACT, any adult can possess up to 50 grams of dry cannabis, although it can't be consumed in public, and can grow two plants. In South Australia. possession for personal use can be penalised with an expiation, which is a fine without a criminal conviction.

There are 10.6 million head of cattle in Queensland, compared to 5.584 million head of humans.

In 1808 in what is referred to as the Rum Rebellion, Governor of the New South Wales penal colony, William Bligh was overthrown by wealthy land owner and politican John Macarthur, and head of the New South Wales Naval Corp, Major George Johnston backed by 400 armed soldiers.

The Parliament of South Australia endorsed the right of women to vote and stand for parliament in 1894 and the law received royal assent in 1895. The law applied equally in the Northern Territory, which was then a part of South Australia.

Ownership of crocodiles as pets is currently being legislated in the Northern Territory, and you can already apply for a permit to keep one. There are an estimated 100,000 crocodiles in the Northern Territory and 255,000 humans; that's roughly 2 crocodiles for every 5 people.

Based on GDP per capita, Western Australia is the 7th wealthiest national subdivision in the world.

There have been 248 recorded shark attack fatalities in Australia since 1791. Queensland leads the way with 105 fatalities since records began there in 1853. In the Australian Capital Territory, the number of fatalities caused by political sharks is unknown, but it is estimated to be in the thousands.

The highest mountain in Western Australia is Mount Meharry at 1,249 m in elevation.

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Australia is −23 °C (−9 °F) at Charlotte Pass in the Snowy Mountains on June 29th, 1994.

The first known proven landing of Europeans on Australian soil (excluding the theory of Portuguese discovery between 1521 and 1524) took place in the Gulf of Carpentaria when the Dutch ship the Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, landed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1606. He then sailed up the coast to the tip of Cape York before returning to Banda in the Dutch East Indies.

The Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort on West Wallabi Island (63 km of the coast of Western Australia) is the oldest surviving European building in Australia and was built in 1629 by Dutch survivors of the Batavia mutiny, shipwreck and massacre.

There are estimated to have been about 800,000 indigenous Australians prior to white invasion. Of these some 300,000 lived in what is now known as Queensland.

Ronald Ryan was the last man executed in Australia. He was hanged on February 3rd, 1967 at Pentridge Prison in Melbourne.

Lê Văn Hiếu was the 35th governor of South Australia, in office from September 1st, 2014 to August 31st, 2021. Le is the first person of Vietnamese background to be appointed to a vice-regal position anywhere in the world. (The Territories do not have Governors)

The word "Canberra" is derived from the Ngunnawal language of a local Ngunnawal or Ngambri clan who resided in the area and were referred to by the early British colonists as either the Canberry, Kanberri or Nganbra tribe.

The Tasmanian Coat of Arms has two thylacines or Tasmanian tigers on either side of a shield. The last known Tasmanian tiger died in 1936.

A penal settlement was established in Moreton Bay, Brisbane in 1824, but the first free settlers were German missionaries who arrived in 1837.