Australia's Two Invasions

1. Before Human Occupation .   (pre-45,000 BP)   The geochronology of Australia's continental formation; the movement of the Sahul tectonic plate; Australia's mega-fauna period; the Toba bottleneck; and the existence of the Wallace-Weber barrier to settlement.

2. Before Asian contact .   (45,000 BP - 10,000 BP)   The 35,000 years of Aboriginal isolation. Ice-age survival; Maccassan and other Asian contacts; the extinction of Australia's mega-fauna; the bushfires/Eucalypt period.

3. Asian and first European contacts.   (8000 BP - 1600 AD)   The transformation of the continent; Maccassan trepang; European Spice Trade interests; Separation of Papua New Guinea.

4. Cook and Enlightenment colonisation .   (1770 - 1788)   Bougainville, Wallis, Tahiti; Cook, Matra Corsican Revolution American Revolution, French Revolution. World War 0/

5. Pitt, Banks Matra.   (1771-1790)   The slave trade; Foundation of Botany Bay.

MINOR PIECES

9. Evolution .     Wallace. Darwin