User blog comment:Zaffie/Story Competition!!!!/@comment-1597182-20101110004020/@comment-1839575-20101110005717

Well, the Aboriginals were the first Australians actually - at some stage millions of years ago they sailed over from Africa or somewhere. Then Captain Cook and a bunch of buddies came and shot the Aboriginals, and then they decided that Australia wasn't cool, so they shipped their convicts here, and then a bunch of other people decided that Australia was cool, so they came to live here, and then they built farms, and the Aboriginals took sheep and cows and stuff from the farms cos they were hungry, and then they shot them again, and then there was fighting between them for ages, and then there was a gold rush down at Ballarat, and all the Chinese came down to Australia to get gold, and then the Australians beat them up, and then these guys forged a path through the Blue Mountains, and that was the coolest bit of the whole history, and then a bit later they decided they needed a capital, and Sydney and Melbourne both wanted it, but neither of them got it, and then they held a competition, and Walter Burley Griffin, some American dude, won, and he designed the capital city, and they called it Canberra, which is an Aboriginal word, and it used to be sheep paddocks/fields except now it's a city and lots of people live here including me and I like it a lot!

Phew, looks like I did pay attention in Year 3 after all XD