Who were the first settlers in Australia?

  • First settlers
  • Australia
  • Aboriginal people
  • British settlers

The first settlers in Australia were the Aboriginal people, who arrived about 50,000 years ago. The first European settlers were the British, who established a penal colony in 1788.

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