The people who were to build the government were convicts.
The very first European settlers in Australia (not including the Aborigines who were the first inhabitants) were a mix of convicts, officers and marines, and free settlers, all of whom came from Britain.
Australia Day did and still does celebrate the landing of the First Fleet of convicts, soldiers and officers in Australia in 1788. It celebrates the raising of the British flag upon Australian soil with the arrival of the first settlers in New South Wales.
All of the states in Australia are first settled by English settlers in one form or another - either as convicts, military or free settlers. New South Wales was the first state to be settled.
The first English-born person to arrive in South Australia was explorer Matthew Flinders, who did so in 1802. He was the first European to explore the southern coast in detail, investigating possibilities for settlement.The colony of South Australia was proclaimed and settled in 1836. In 1834, British Parliament passed the South Australian Colonisation Act. Adelaide, capital of South Australia, was founded by Colonel Light in 1836. The first settlers, all of whom were free settlers, arrived in 1836, accompanied by Governor John Hindmarsh. South Australia is the only state in Australia not to have been founded by convicts.
The first official settlers or "immigrants" to Australia arrive in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788.
The British put their prisoners there.
the first british settlers in australia were exiled convicts
The first European settlers in Australia (specifically New South Wales) were convicts, officers and marines. The convicts were literally the ones who built Australia.
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No. At that time, there was no Australian government.
The first settlers arrived in Australia during Australia's mid-Summer.
The first settlers in Australia usually came from an English background.
The South Australian Colonisation Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1834, and the first settlers arrived in 1836.
British and French were the first settlers of Canada.
Convicts formed a large percentage of the Australian population for the first few decades of settlement.
The very first European settlers in Australia (not including the Aborigines who were the first inhabitants) were a mix of convicts, officers and marines, and free settlers, all of whom came from Britain.
The first European settlers to arrive in Australia were convicts from England, guarded by a large number of marines and officers.