What else links Wales and Australia other than I'm a Celebrity?
Last year Mark Little, who played Joe Mangel in the soap, revealed he wasAustralia's first female prime minister, who served from 2010 to 2013, says her Welsh roots shaped her politicsFormer Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, but emigrated with her family when she was four.her Welsh roots shaped her politics which led her to become Australia's first female prime minister.
Ms Gillard said she did not have "original memories" of Wales but the fact her parents' "formative experiences were there, that was the subject of our family discussions in the home, so the consciousness that I was born in Wales and that mattered, has been with me throughout my life"., a Welsh speaker raised in Llandudno, Conwy.
He emigrated to Australia at the age of 22, started out as a labourer and served as Australian premier between 1915 and 1923.Lieutenant James Cook is believed to have named New South Wales, believing it to look like the south coast of WalesThe name New South Wales came from the journal of Lieutenant James Cook, later Captain Cook, who sailed up the east coast of Australia in 1770.
Some say he believed the land looked like the south coast of Wales, leading him to name it "New Wales" before changing the name in his journal to "New South Wales".Among them you'll find Neath, Aberdare and Cardiff in New South Wales, Merthyr and Ebbw Vale in Queensland, Welshpool in Victoria and Swansea in Tasmania.
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