Download or read book A Concise History of Western Australia written by Russell Earls Davis and published by Woodslane Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human history of Western Australia, as of allAustralia, stretches back some 60,000 years. It is oftenassumed that European colonisation was very recentrelative to the rest of Australia, but in fact it wascontemporary with the first penal colony in Queensland,and while a South Australian settlement was still a gleamin London's eye. ......