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= Victoria = = =

**Aboriginal’s history **
====The aboriginals depends on the environment for food like kangaroo, emus, wallabies, reptiles,birds and possums. Aboriginals believed that there land was sacred and they had to look after it with great care. The elder in the aboriginals family are responsible to teach the young ones laws, traditinals hunting,dancing and weopon making. If aboriginal people break traditional laws they would be puished by wounding or they could be killed. ====

**Europeans History**
====Soon after Europeans settled at Sydney cove in 1788, they started to explore Victoria, for new land for the live stock. 25 years later in October 1813, David Collins landed with convicts close to Sorrento(Victoria). ==== ====Edward Hently landed at Portland in 1834, and started a farm then a year later1835, John Batman bought half a million acres of land off local aboriginals. ====

** Government and laws **
====In Victoria there are three levels of Government, the state, the federal and the local. The Victoria parliament has two houses: the Legislatives Assembly or lower Houses, and the Legislatives council or Upper House. There are 44 member of the legislatives council and 88 m ====

The capital city of Victoria is Melbourne and Melbourne is the biggest city in Victoria. Victoria is the secound
====smallest state in Australia and covers 227.600 square kms,which is roughly the size of the British Isles. There are more than five million people that lives in Victoria.Forests are getting destroyed and covers 36% of Victoria is covered by forest.Temperatures vary widely but ost of the state falls within the warm.==== ====**Flag**- The flag of Victoria dates from 1877 and features the stars of the southern crooss with a distinative range of points on the satrs The Royal crown is also incorporated as part of victoria's state badge and flag. Both Victoria and Queensland were name of queen Victoria====

**Native Plant and Animal**
====Lead beater possum is the Native Animal of Victoria. Lead beater is an endangered possum restriped to small pocket of remaining old growth to mountain ash forest in the central highland of Victoria, Australia north-east of Melbourne.The lead beaters are born blind and naked, much of their early development in the mothers pounch. ====

What do lead beater possum eat
====The bead beater possum has quite a varied died. There are known to eat insect such as moth,beetles and spiders which it claws out from underneath tree bark. Some insect exude a sweet liquid called honey drew possum lick off the leaves of trees. It enjoys the gum, nectar and sap of wattle tree. ====

The Native Plant of Victoria
====The native plant of Victoria is the pink heath. They are about 2cm long and are narrow and tubula. the pink health is normally from late autumn to late spring peaking in the winter time. ====

Landmark and Tourist Attractions
====One of the best tourist attraction is the Great Ocean Rodd. It is 420 kms long and run from Geelong to South Australia. Phillip Island is also very good. At nigh time penguins come to shore. Another great tourist attractions in Sovereign Hill in Ba llarat. It's all about 1854 gold rush.====