The first European settlement in Australia was a penal colony.
Aborigines were the first people to live in Australia. Archaeological evidence proves this.
The first Europeans to settle in Australia landed at Port Jackson (the present site of Sydney) on the 26th of January 1788. This settlement started of as a penal colony.
The aborigines.
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It is generally accepted that the dingo arrived from Asia with the Aborigines when they first came to Australia.
Aborigines from southern Australia
Chris Sandow From The South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Probably the religion of the aborigines.
No. The Australian Aborigines were the first people who lived in Australia.
The first Europeans came to Australia and the Aborigines were living on reserves. Reserves are lands that were set aside for the use of registered Indians.
The first Englishman to record the existence of Aborigines was English pirate and explorer William Dampier, in 1688. He was not impressed with either the country or the people, and noted in his journal that he considered them to be "the miserablest people in the world".