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Aboriginals
The first fleet arrived at the shores of Australia and found the land was not as empty as they expected. Instead the were indigenous people who had ancestry 50,000 years ago, and we were out numbered by 500,000 indigenous people. -
Convict Transportation
In 1788 to 1868, 160,000 convicts were sent to Australian Colonies from Britain because of all the overcrowding prisons, and the journey took roughly eight months at sea. from about fifty and up convicts were crammed into a cell, and were chained up for the whole trip.