Australia has strong international teams in cricket, field hockey, netball, rugby league, and rugby union, having been Olympic or world champions at least twice in each sport in the last 25 years for both men and women where applicable. History. Human habitation of the Australian continent is estimated to have begun between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago, possibly with the migration of people by land bridges and short seacrossings from what is now SouthEast Asia. These first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. Exploration by Europeans till 1812 1606 Willem Janszoon 1606 Luis Váez de Torres 1616 Dirk Hartog 1619 Frederick de Houtman 1644 Abel Tasman
Mount Kosciusko Climate Australia is warm and dry. There is very little extremely cold regions in Australia. Summer last from December to February. Histor y. Human habitation of Australia is estimated to have begun between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago, possibly with the migration of people by land bridges and short seacrossings from what is now Southeast Asia. These first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. At the time of European settlement in the late 18th century, most Indigenous Australians were hunter gatherers, with a complex oral culture and spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturalists and huntergatherers. Celebrity from