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The British set up the first colony in Botany Bay for the convicts because in Britain the prisons were getting overcrowded.
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Not everyone stayed in Australia because there were sealers in Van Diemen's Land.
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A British settlement of free settlers was established on the Swan River.
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South Australia was a free colony.
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