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First Fleet landed in 1788, and there where two colonies called New South Whales and New Holland
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A timeline of the development of colonies
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some of the convicts that committed terrible crimes where sent to 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 established as a free colony in 1836.
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European settlement had slowly been expanding to coastal parts of northern
Australia from the 1820s. -
New South Wales had been settled by
escaped convicts, whalers and sealers from the 1790s. -
Queensland started with a convict settlement at Moreton Bay, Queensland was created by continuing the eastern Australian Border