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European Exploration Dutch
First Europeans to sail to Australia were the Dutch Netherlands in 1606, but they didn’t settle there the Dutch made one landing, were attacked by Aborigines, and then abandoned further exploration. -
European Exploration : British
Captain James Cook sailed around Australia Cook named the area New South Wales Ignored the Aborigines living there & claimed the land for England Sailors also mapped the coast eastern Australia & Tasmania -
colony prison
British ships called the “First Fleet” left England with convicts to establish a prison colony -
Early Prison Settlement
British prisoners settled in Australia -
New South Wales
New South Wales was officially a penal prison colony consisting mainly of convicts, marines guards, and the marines’ families -
Aborigines
Aborigines went through stages of being conquered through an 'invasion' and taking of their lands. European settlers often separated Aborigines from society -
Port Arthur Tasmania
It was the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals, those who were secondary offenders having reoffended after their arrival in Australia. -
Commonwealth of Australia
Non prisoner colonization continued major coastal settlements became 7 independent colonies. -
White Australia
Originally, Australia promoted a policy called “White Australia Restriction Act of 1901: restricted migration to people primarily of European descent. -
Australia Today
Australia Act all legal ties with the British Empire were severed
