Tasmania (British colony)

All the Australian colonies save Western Australia have implemented representative and responsible forms of government by 1860, using the Australian Colonies Government Act of 1850 to do so.

Victoria adopts protectionist trade policies in 1866, followed by ...

...South Australia and ...

...Tasmania.

Trugernanner, the last aboriginal Tasmanian, dies in 1876.

According to a report in The Times she had married a Tasmanian known as "King Billy", who had died in March 1871.

By 1873, Trugernanner was the sole survivor of the Oyster Cove group, and was again moved to Hobart.

She died three years later, having requested that her ashes be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel; she is, however, buried at the former Female Factory at Cascades, a suburb of Hobart.

Within two years, her skeleton is exhumed by the Royal Society of Tasmania and later placed on display.

Only in April 1976, approaching the centenary of her death, will Trugernanner's remains be finally cremated and scattered according to her wishes.

Australia's six colonies individually gain responsible government between 1855 and 1890, managing most of their own affairs while remaining part of the British Empire.

The Colonial Office in London retains control of some matters, notably foreign affairs, defense, and international shipping.