catholics
Maryland
They started to settle in Australia after the Vietnam war in 1975
They wanted to give Catholics a safe place to live.
The Catholics of England
They wanted to give Catholics a safe place to live.
from WikiPedia:Catholicism arrived in Australia with the British First Fleet in 1788. The first Australian Catholics were mainly Irish.
They wanted to give Catholics a safe place to live.
Migrants may settle anywhere in Australia they want to, but they tend to settle where there are employment opportunities, or often within their own cultural communities.
It was the Catholics who allowed Christians to settle in Maryland. The colony was founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, as a haven for English Catholics facing persecution. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 further established a framework for religious tolerance, allowing both Catholics and Protestants to practice their faith freely.
Maryland was settled by Catholics as it was the only colony at the time that would allow them to practice their faith without fear of persecution.
James Cook was neither the first person to discover nor settle Australia.