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Detailed explanation-1: -26, 2023. Australians marked the 235th anniversary of British colonization Thursday with a public holiday that evokes anger at Indigenous injustice, focusing national attention on a new government push to acknowledge Australia’s first inhabitants in the constitution.

Detailed explanation-2: -1770-Captain James Cook lands at Botany Bay with his ship, the HMS Endeavour. He then proceeds to map the eastern coast of Australia, claiming it for Great Britain. 1788-The first British settlement is established at Sydney by Captain Arthur Phillip.

Detailed explanation-3: -The British colonised Australia in order to expand their empire and to place their convicts. The prisons in England were totally overcrowded. Until 1776, the British King used to send the prisoners to British colonies in North America but since America became independent, another solution was needed.