James Cook was neither the first person to discover nor settle Australia.
With the First Fleet.
The Aboriginal People first settle Australia.
The first Italian to arrive and settle in Australia was convict Giuseppe Tuzo, who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788.
Penrith, New South Wales
Around Sydney Harbour.
Governor Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet to Australia, establishing the first British colony in the land.
The Quakers, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Scotch-Irish were the first to settle Pennsylvania.
from WikiPedia:Catholicism arrived in Australia with the British First Fleet in 1788. The first Australian Catholics were mainly Irish.
he held the first mass in Australia
they were one of the first spanish Texas settlers which might have been in about the 1700's
Australia was one of Britain's colonies. The first white people to settle in Astralia were British convicts in 1788 or so.