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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Douglas Mawson, John Forrest, John McDouall Stuart, Hubert Wilkins, Edgeworth David, Simon Mitchell, Henry Hellyer, Thomas Griffith Taylor, Thomas Mitchell, Duncan McIntyre, William Wentworth, Thomas Braidwood Wilson, Leyland Brothers, Francis Cadell, Trevor Jackson, Hamilton Hume, John Batman, Augustus Charles Gregory, E. T. Hooley, Phillip Parker King, Robert Dixon, Jack Hides, Gregory Blaxland, Alfred William Howitt, Alexander Forrest, Len Beadell, John Charles Darke, Angus McMillan, John Bechervaise, John King Davis, Lawrence Wells, Tim Jarvis, Tommy Windich, Nathaniel Buchanan, David Lindsay, Archibald Bell Jr., John Finnegan, William Lawson, Richard W. Richards, George Ainsworth, James Smith, Mick Leahy, Archibald Meston, Cecil Madigan, Francis Thomas Gregory, Alf Howard, Herbert Basedow, Richard Parsons, Paul Hosie, Damien Gildea, Duncan Chessell, Charles Hoadley, James Venture Mulligan, Warren Macdonald, John Thompson, Michael Terry, James Gumm, Frank Hann, Jim Taylor, Stephen King jr, David Apperley, Thomas Bannister, Ben Kozel, Samir Alhafith, Leigh Vial, Robert Austin, Alfred Durlacher. Excerpt: Sir John Forrest GCMG (22 August 1847 - 2 September 1918) was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament. As a young man, John Forrest won fame as an explorer by leading three expeditions into the interior of Western Australia. He was appointed Surveyor General and in 1890 became the first Premier of Western Australia, its only premier as a self-governing colony. Forrest's premiership gave the state ten years of stable administration during a period of rapid development and demographic change. He pursued a policy of large-scale public works and extensive land settlement, and he helped to ensure that Western Australia joined the fede...
