Australia was one of Britain's colonies. The first white people to settle in Astralia were British convicts in 1788 or so.
The Aboriginal People first settle Australia.
The British settled in Sydney from the arrival of the First Fleet, on 26 January 1788.
Although the Portuguese are believed to be the first Europeans to discover Australia, they did not settle any part of it or live here prior to Britain colonising the continent.
James Cook was neither the first person to discover nor settle Australia.
The first people sent to colonise Australia were convicts and the officers and marines sent to supervise them.
1788
The first colonists to settle in Australia were a mixture of over 700 convicts sent from Britain, and the officers sent to oversee the new colony, under the command of Governor Arthur Phillip. There were also many marines, some of whom brought their wives and children.
The Australian Aboriginal people were the first ethnic group to settle in Australia. DNA testing has shown they are closest in ethnicity to the people of the Indian sub-continent.
Australians speak English because the first Europeans to settle the continent were the British.
the first people to settle in Manchester were farmers
Australia was colonised by the British. The British government sent a fleet of convicts and officers to colonise the land that Captain James Cook had named and claimed as "New South Wales".