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Captain James Cook has found Australia, found an area, and called it New South Wales. He ignored the Aborigines there and settled there. Sailors have mapped Australia, too.
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They explored to Australia but did not settle there, instead, they were going to stay at another place but the Aborigines there attacked them, they never explored since then.
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People went on ships to find a prison colony.
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British prisoners settled in Australia.
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New South Wales was now officially a prison island with convicts, marines, and the marines’ families. 20% of them were girls.
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At Tthis time, prisoners who comitted crime that the punishment should hve been there life, they went here where the security was high and strict till 1850.
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The government has placed boundaries on the colonies that still are here today.
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People stopped brining prisoners to Australia.
After, free immigrants came and started businesses. -
The commonwealth of Australia was established.
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The government passed a legislation to help them.
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All the legal ties with the British Empire were severed.
