Marsupials were taken for food.
Goats live in Australia, but they are not native to the country. Goats were introduced with the First Fleet in 1788.
Sailors, marine guards, convicts.
It was in Western Australian Habour
To convince people that you are not totally ignorant about Australian history.
It began the British colonisation of the Australian continent and the dispossession of the Aboriginal people
Australia as a nation did not exist when the First Fleet arrived - it was called either Terra Australis, New Holland or New South Wales. In consequence there was no Australian Navy (that came in 1911, 123 years later). Two Royal Navy ships were part of the First Fleet - HMS Sirius and HMS Supply.
The First Fleet was made up primarily of convicts. There were many sailors, marines and officers as well, and a large number of stock animals.
Because that there would be no cattle and farm animals to produce meat and wool
The First Fleet mostly transported convicts from England, along with the officers and marines who guarded them. Naturally, rations and stock animals were also transported.
from WikiPedia:Catholicism arrived in Australia with the British First Fleet in 1788. The first Australian Catholics were mainly Irish.
Each time the First Fleet stopped, it was to purchase more provisions and stock animals to get the new colony started once they arrived in New South Wales.
"Fleet" generally refers to ships, not animals.