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About Australia :The first known landing in Australia by Europeans was by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606.The first inhabitants of Australia were the Aborigines, who migrated there at least 40,000 years ago from Southeast Asia. Free settlers and former prisoners established six colonies: New South Wales (1786), Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) (1825), Western Australia (1829), South Australia (1834), Victoria (1851), and Queensland (1859).