This is unironically true
The Indonesians traded with Darwin First Nations people
The Dutch landed on the West coast ages before the British
The French were in a dad ed with t he British but the British stuck some plates up first
Its funny to imagine literal centuries of SEAs sailing to Australia only to turn back once they realized it was an empty, desert wasteland, and then here come the fucking Brits looking for somewhere to dump their criminals and drunks.
>Abos live there for fuck knows how long >Don't really do anything, just get high, fuck kids, and creating weaksauce cave paintings >They might have also burned down the rainforest that covered all of Australia, but IDK, it's been a while since I think I read that. >In the early 1600's some Dutchies turn up, take one look at the shithole, and don't bother coming back. >In 1783 Britain realises it needs a new place to send its shitheads, arseholes, retards, drunkards, and diddlers (as they'd lost the ability to just ship them to the American colonies a few years earlier), remember that they heard some rumours about the Dutch finding a big island down in the South Pacific, and think it sounds like a great place to put the people nobody will really miss. >Entire continent becomes British prison colony due to the 'FUCK YOU, I put my flag up first' rule of colonisation, and none of the other colonial powers really being all that interested in the giant, sunbaked, shitheap of a continent. >British criminal/unwanted population grows, by the end of the practice British judges were handing down sentences of 'Transportation' for basically anything that didn't warrant a hanging >Abos don't really do anything to resist, as they get absolutely roflstomped each of the few times they tried, and just go where the white people aren't >By 1907 Australia is more or less entirely self governing and granted Dominion status within the British Empire/Commonwealth >In 1942 the Australian parliament accepts full legislative independence under the terms of the Statute of Westminster >In 1986 Britain and Australia agree to full independence for the Aussies >The 1986 independence was different to the 1942 independence for reasons that only really matter to British Constitutional Scholars.
There you go, that's most of the important bits
australia had enormous amounts of free settler immigrants, in fact most of his settlers were the cream of the crop from their host countries after the early penal period. This is why Australia consitently punches above its weight in intellectuals, sciencetists, inventions etc (we're talking per capita here). Just look at the Canadian population and economy size and compare it to Australia. But due to the early penal period there is a substantial class and culture of what Aussies call subhuman "bogans" who are virtually a different race from the middle class white Australians.
I still don't know what the hell Australia is good for. Maybe some oil? I mean can you even farm anything? I guess you can have some cattle but what is the point of the country? Huge land mass and everyone has to live on the coast.
It's good to keep the prestige of Britain old ruling monarchic elite to remind them they once dominated half of the world, and to "stop" China's rising influence and power on Asia, nothing else.
They didn't. The Dutch discovered Australia in 1606, hence why a lot of earl historical names for Australia were of Dutch origin (New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, etc.). The island had no economic or strategic value so it was ignored by Europeans for centuries. The British didn't make any claim on Australia until 1770 so they could establish a penal colony there. It only became an economically viable colony after the Victorian Gold Rush.
The Victorian Gold Rush occurred in the 1850s to early 1860s. It made the colony of Victoria-which had recently been granted independence from New South Wales by its namesake Queen-very wealthy and attracted thousands of settlers which facilitated massive population growth. By the 1880s, the Victorian capital of Melbourne was the richest city in the British Empire.
Conflict between gold miners and the British colonial administration led to the Eureka Rebellion (1854) and the founding of Australia's first parliament.
The Dutch and the Spanish passed through the area and knew if its existence but there was hardly anything worth sticking around for + it was quite inhospitable compared to other places they colonized.
>Why did the British discover Australia and not others?
The Dutch discovered Australia, not the British. The British however were the ones to colonize and settle it because no one else was interested in it because there was seemingly nothing of value there to justify wasting any resources on colonizing it. Map painting games like EU4 hadn't been published yet (nor hindsight on how settler colonies would turn out in the long term) so the powers that be (bar the Anglos) did not yet realize the value in conquering empty inhospitable wastelands at the edge of the world.
It could be already discovered by Portuguese but they kept their maps secret and they got destroyed in earthquake so we will never know. But Dutch certainly knew Australia from 1600s and Englishmen William Dampier sailed around it in 1680s but both recognized it held no economic value and described Aboriginals as 'most miserable people in the world '
>discover
"Australia" was always there, it's just that others never bothered about killing the indigenous native population and turning that place into a dump for prostitues, convicts, criminals, exilees and others banned from the United Kingdom.
>Abos spend 10k years there and their greatest achievement is a curved stick >The dregs of European society manage to transform that wasteland into one of the richest nations on earth
The Dutch discovered the northwest coast of Australia after being blown off course on their way to Indonesia but NW Australia is just a barren desert. It wasn't until captain cook discovered the east coast that Australia was seen suitable for colonization.
i think the myth that "britain discovered australia" comes from the fact that the british were the first europeans to land in Eastern Australia aka the part of Australia where most of the population is today.
I'm French and just imagine how shit the place would be if we had taken over it instead of Britain
With our shitty habit of trying (and failing) to civilize the locals instead of ethnically replacing them like Anglos did, the whole place would now be ruled by fucking abos
Imagine Australia ran by these 60 IQ apes
What was there to discover? They probably found it and ignored. Nothing there.
This is unironically true
The Indonesians traded with Darwin First Nations people
The Dutch landed on the West coast ages before the British
The French were in a dad ed with t he British but the British stuck some plates up first
Its funny to imagine literal centuries of SEAs sailing to Australia only to turn back once they realized it was an empty, desert wasteland, and then here come the fucking Brits looking for somewhere to dump their criminals and drunks.
>then here come the fucking Brits looking for somewhere to dump their criminals and drunks.
QRD on straya's history?
There's nothing to tell, it started off as a Penal Colony, this is common knowledge.
>Abos live there for fuck knows how long
>Don't really do anything, just get high, fuck kids, and creating weaksauce cave paintings
>They might have also burned down the rainforest that covered all of Australia, but IDK, it's been a while since I think I read that.
>In the early 1600's some Dutchies turn up, take one look at the shithole, and don't bother coming back.
>In 1783 Britain realises it needs a new place to send its shitheads, arseholes, retards, drunkards, and diddlers (as they'd lost the ability to just ship them to the American colonies a few years earlier), remember that they heard some rumours about the Dutch finding a big island down in the South Pacific, and think it sounds like a great place to put the people nobody will really miss.
>Entire continent becomes British prison colony due to the 'FUCK YOU, I put my flag up first' rule of colonisation, and none of the other colonial powers really being all that interested in the giant, sunbaked, shitheap of a continent.
>British criminal/unwanted population grows, by the end of the practice British judges were handing down sentences of 'Transportation' for basically anything that didn't warrant a hanging
>Abos don't really do anything to resist, as they get absolutely roflstomped each of the few times they tried, and just go where the white people aren't
>By 1907 Australia is more or less entirely self governing and granted Dominion status within the British Empire/Commonwealth
>In 1942 the Australian parliament accepts full legislative independence under the terms of the Statute of Westminster
>In 1986 Britain and Australia agree to full independence for the Aussies
>The 1986 independence was different to the 1942 independence for reasons that only really matter to British Constitutional Scholars.
There you go, that's most of the important bits
so much of this is wrong
>NO U!
there you go, just translated your comment from butthurt into English
australia had enormous amounts of free settler immigrants, in fact most of his settlers were the cream of the crop from their host countries after the early penal period. This is why Australia consitently punches above its weight in intellectuals, sciencetists, inventions etc (we're talking per capita here). Just look at the Canadian population and economy size and compare it to Australia. But due to the early penal period there is a substantial class and culture of what Aussies call subhuman "bogans" who are virtually a different race from the middle class white Australians.
I still don't know what the hell Australia is good for. Maybe some oil? I mean can you even farm anything? I guess you can have some cattle but what is the point of the country? Huge land mass and everyone has to live on the coast.
It's good to keep the prestige of Britain old ruling monarchic elite to remind them they once dominated half of the world, and to "stop" China's rising influence and power on Asia, nothing else.
In western australia there are wheat fields stretching for hundreds of km, probably the size of some european countries.
You're right, I don't know much about Australia's complete geography and arable land, I was shitposting. Actually am fond of Australia.
>British discover Australia
How do you discover a place where several different groups of people?
They didn't. The Dutch discovered Australia in 1606, hence why a lot of earl historical names for Australia were of Dutch origin (New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, etc.). The island had no economic or strategic value so it was ignored by Europeans for centuries. The British didn't make any claim on Australia until 1770 so they could establish a penal colony there. It only became an economically viable colony after the Victorian Gold Rush.
>the Victorian Gold Rush.
QRD?
so there was this rush for gold
and here's the real kicker, it was in Victoria, Australia
yeah crazy i know
The Victorian Gold Rush occurred in the 1850s to early 1860s. It made the colony of Victoria-which had recently been granted independence from New South Wales by its namesake Queen-very wealthy and attracted thousands of settlers which facilitated massive population growth. By the 1880s, the Victorian capital of Melbourne was the richest city in the British Empire.
Conflict between gold miners and the British colonial administration led to the Eureka Rebellion (1854) and the founding of Australia's first parliament.
The Dutch and the Spanish passed through the area and knew if its existence but there was hardly anything worth sticking around for + it was quite inhospitable compared to other places they colonized.
>Why did the British discover Australia and not others?
The Dutch discovered Australia, not the British. The British however were the ones to colonize and settle it because no one else was interested in it because there was seemingly nothing of value there to justify wasting any resources on colonizing it. Map painting games like EU4 hadn't been published yet (nor hindsight on how settler colonies would turn out in the long term) so the powers that be (bar the Anglos) did not yet realize the value in conquering empty inhospitable wastelands at the edge of the world.
What tremendous foresight the Britishers must have had
It could be already discovered by Portuguese but they kept their maps secret and they got destroyed in earthquake so we will never know. But Dutch certainly knew Australia from 1600s and Englishmen William Dampier sailed around it in 1680s but both recognized it held no economic value and described Aboriginals as 'most miserable people in the world '
>It could be already discovered by Portuguese
Pseudohistory
>discover
"Australia" was always there, it's just that others never bothered about killing the indigenous native population and turning that place into a dump for prostitues, convicts, criminals, exilees and others banned from the United Kingdom.
>Abos spend 10k years there and their greatest achievement is a curved stick
>The dregs of European society manage to transform that wasteland into one of the richest nations on earth
Colonialism is truly based
The Dutch discovered the northwest coast of Australia after being blown off course on their way to Indonesia but NW Australia is just a barren desert. It wasn't until captain cook discovered the east coast that Australia was seen suitable for colonization.
Tasmania id named after a dutch governor.
i think the myth that "britain discovered australia" comes from the fact that the british were the first europeans to land in Eastern Australia aka the part of Australia where most of the population is today.
They didn't discover it for Europeans, they were quite aware of that. The Dutch were the first known Europeans to discover it.
I'm French and just imagine how shit the place would be if we had taken over it instead of Britain
With our shitty habit of trying (and failing) to civilize the locals instead of ethnically replacing them like Anglos did, the whole place would now be ruled by fucking abos
Imagine Australia ran by these 60 IQ apes