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The first attempt to settle Victoria occurred in 1803, when Lieutenant David Collins established a convict colony near present-day Sorrento. Lack of fresh water and unsuitable soil for agriculture caused Collins to abandon the southern coast settlement and move across Bass Strait to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

The next, more successful attempt to establish a permanent settlement in Victoria was in 1836, when John Batman began the town of Melbourne, and the Henty brothers took up land near Portland.

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