it's insane when you think that Aussies managed to build all these great cities that feel no different from NYC or London when you think Australia was only started to be colonized around the early 1800s and the major colonization wave was only in late 19th/early 20th century + then again after WW2>Aus and NZ were discovered by the Dutch. Australia was called New Holland before the UK claimed it>1788 - After losing the American colonies, the British set up the first penal colony.>Starts as a British outpost in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth>Sydney, the first British settlement, was named after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, he was responsible for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay in Australia>Melbourne was named after Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time>Brisbane streets are named after British royal>New Holland, was the original English name for Australia and comprised the western otherwise "unoccupied" portion of the continent>Captain James Cook called NSW the "New Wales", but later refined it to "New South Wales". The "South" was added to distinguish it from Wales in the British Isle>White Australia Policy. Only WASP are white. Mainland Europeans, even one's Americans would consider "White" at the time like Germans, Swedes, and French, were often rejected. Let alone the Mediterranean cultures like the Greeks or Italians>The discovery of gold in Victoria in 1851 led to the Victorian gold rush, Melbourne was the richest city due to the Gold RushIn the 1880's Melbourne was the richest city in the world. The overwhelming majority of Australia is essentially an inhospitable, infertile, rock covered in sand
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>>520861922The cities were already there when whites arrived
>>520863721Yes, noongas built those roads, buildings, trains, everything. White dogs stole and took credit for it
>>520863966You get it
