The reason that I picked William Charles Wentworth was because he was very important to the way we live today in two ways, the first was opening up new grazing lands by going over the blue mountains, but most importantly the way the government system was set up to today. William Charles Wentworth was born in 1790 Norfolk Island and died in 1872. Wentworth was educated in England at the University of Cambridge. He studied law in …showed first 75 words of 953 total…

…showed last 75 words of 953 total…role in helping shape Australia as we know it today. Wentworth really set down the foundations for the system of government as we know it today. Firstly he started to by opening up new grazing lands which helped spread out Australia. Really the most important thing that he did was giving the lower class people to have a chance to vote and put forward there point of view. William Wentworth really bought democracy to Australia.