Topic of Australia
very suitable for settlers. Therefore, the first settlement reached Botany Bay in 1788, but the
bay was not suitable and they started to search a better landing point. It was found at Port
Jackson. The captain of the fleet, Arthur Phillip, became the first governor on New South
Wales. The first settlement consisted form convicts and their guards. The convicts were put to
work immediately after arriving at Port Jackson, but they were all city-bred and so quite
unskillful. At that time, there were about 300000 Aborigines in Australia and luckily for the
Brits, not all were hostile. Phillip tried hard to befriend with the natives and he succeeded
with Bennelong. Phillip had a hut built for Bennelong on the point where the Sydney Opera
House now stands.
The second fleet arrived in 1790. That fleet brought soldiers that were called the New South
Wales Corps. Their mission was to keep law and order in the colony. However, a great
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