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It isn't at all unusual to see, on the supermarket shelves, fruit and vegetables which come from distant lands |
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In the days of the Empire many Britons who lived in the colonies owned great areas of land |
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By the end of the 19th century, the foundations of the Australian economy, mining and farming, were firmly established |
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The movement of colonists around the globe generally resulted in the native populations' being forced out |
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Over ninety per cent of America's colonial population earned its living from the soil |