The first people sent to colonise Australia were convicts and the officers and marines sent to supervise them.
They sent criminals who would have normally been sent to jail to Australia when the jails became overcrowded.
Approximately 43% of Australians are bilingual, meaning they speak more than one language. This makes Australia a linguistically diverse country with a substantial portion of its population being multilingual.
There is no Waitangi Day equivalent in Australia. The British did not negotiate any sort of treaty with the indigenous people of Australia.
People were originally sent to Australia in exile from England. The exile was a form of punishment for England's criminals.
Convicts were sent to Australia by England.
Criminals were not sent to Australia in 1900. Transportation of convicts was abolished in Australia in the 1848.
not much, a few people died a few people were Born. That sort of thing
to populate the colony. many woman prisoners were sent as well as men
Because when the Irish people were caught doing a crime, e.g stealing, they would be sent to Australia as a punishment and never come back.
England because they were sent as criminals
Tim Cahill (Australia)