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NAME : KIM DATE : 15/JUNE WEEK9



Write a newspaper article about Australia -> In Australia, we have to press the button to cross the road, to open the door of train. It is an unusual things to do and to see. Australia has special foods. For example, roast lamb, meat pies and vegemite. An iconic Australian foodstuff is Vegemite (now owned by the American Kraft Foods[1]). Other unique or iconic national foods include Milo; Macadamia nuts; the Chiko Roll, a deep-fried savoury roll akin to a spring roll; Violet Crumble, a honeycomb chocolate bar; Cherry Ripe; Jaffas, chocolate with an orange-flavoured confectionery shell; Tim Tams, a chocolate biscuit; Musk sticks; Lamingtons; the Vanilla slice; and the breakfast cereal Weet-Bix. Small, hand sized meat pies generally made with meat and gravy are well-known a takeaway snack. In South Australia these are sometimes served upside down on a bed of pea soup, covered in tomato sauce, and called a Pie floater. Kangaroo meat is a popular restaurant and pub menu item and is also very common in supermarkets where it is available as tenderloin fillets, steaks, legs and 'kanga bangas' - kangaroo sausages.[2] Damper is a simple and traditional type of bread, traditionally made by wrapping bread dough around a stick, then roasting it over an open fire. It is not often found commonly nor commercially available in Australia in modern times.

A Pavlova. The Boston bun is a spiced bun covered in coconut icing popular in Australia and New Zealand. Fairy bread is a children's birthday party snack consisting of buttered white bread covered in hundreds and thousands and/or nonpareils. Anzac biscuits are often thought to be Australian items however Anzac biscuits originated in New Zealand The first Europeans visited the site of Melbourne in 1803. A group of settlers landed at Port Phillip Bay but within a year they moved on to Tasmania. The city of Melbourne was founded in 1835. In that year a group of Tasmanian businessmen formed the Port Phillip Association to found a settlement on Port Phillip Bay. Acting on their behalf John Batman (1801-1839) bought land from the local Aborigines, the Dutigalla clan. However the Aborigines had no concept to owning or selling land and did not really understand the deal. Nevertheless Batman and others then settled on the north bank of the Yarra River. A man named John Pascoe Fawkner AKA Little Johnny Fawkner (1792-1869) led another group, which settled on the south bank shortly afterwards. However the governor of New South Wales Richard Bourke (1777-1855) declared that Batman's treaty with the Aborigines was invalid. Nevertheless settlers flocked to the new settlement and a town of huts and tents grew up. Eventually in 1837 Bourke was forced to accept the new colony. He sent a surveyor named Robert Hoddle (1794-1881) to plan a proper town laid out in a grid pattern. At first the settlement was named Bearbass. However it was renamed after British prime minister William Lamb, Lord Melbourne (1779-1848). St James Cathedral was built in 1842 and it was moved to its present site in 1913. Meanwhile in 1837 Williamstown was laid out as a seaport for the town of Melbourne. However in the 1880s it was superseded by the growth of Port Melbourne. In 1842 Melbourne was incorporated I live in Clayton. I have met a lot of people for 2 months. They are classmates, neighbors, roommates and church friends. Posted Today 6:07 pm - [|[delete]]