They were both.
From the Aborigines' point of view, they were invaders, taking aboriginal lands and pillaging their hunting grounds.
The definition of a 'settler' is one who settles an area, clearing the land and building residences and farms. For this reason, the Europeans that came to Australia were settlers.
Australian Aboriginals
There were 11 ships and they docked in Port Jackson.
Australia's first European settlers arrived in Australia on 26 January 1788. These early seetlers were primarily convicts from England, together with the officers and marines sent with them to help keep order and establish the new colony.
Captin Cook wasn't the first to discover Australia it was a lie they discovered it in 1618
There were free settlers on the First Fleet Which arrived in New South Wales in January 1788. They were the officers' wives and children. With each successive fleet, more free settlers came out. The Second Fleet arrived in New South Wales in June 1790.
before Europeans settlers arrived
The first settlers arrived in Australia during Australia's mid-Summer.
The Europeans thought nothing of the Aboriginals when they arrived on Australia's shores. As a matter of fact they saw Australia as empty land. Note: When William Dampier arrived in 1688, he referred to the Aborigines as "the miserablest people in the world". Like many other Europeans, he misjudged the Aborigines, not recognising their unique skills.
they arrived at 1793 in Australia
Before the European settlers/invaders/explorers arrived, Native American languages dominated.
aborigines have increased in population since europeans began arriving in australia is this true or false wikipedia answers
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Australian Aboriginals
YOUR MUM. Just kidding, the white settlers arrived in australia at the same time of the Great Leprechaun War, which was held in 1807
There were 11 ships and they docked in Port Jackson.
Records showing when the very first Chinese came to Australia are not easily accessible. However, within just a few years of the British settling in Australia, there were Chinese arriving as indentured labourers, convicts and free settlers. Chinese were visiting Australia before the Europeans arrived, as early as the 1750s, visiting the northern coasts for delicacies such as trepang.
The South Australian Colonisation Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1834, and the first settlers arrived in 1836. South Australia is the only state in Australia not to have been founded by convicts. Governor John Hindmarsh arrived in the new colony on the HMS Buffalo, accompanied only by free settlers, who were English.