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Australia was originally settled as a penal (prison) colony by Great Britain in 1788. The first Governor who established the colony at Sydney was Arthur Phillip. Great Britain in 1788.

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Governor Arthur Phillip, under the authority of England, established Sydney, New South Wales (not yet called Australia) as a penal colony in 1788.

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Australia began as a penal colony, an outpost of England where conditions had become so appalling that they could not even manage their own convicts.

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