"There were two perennial reasons. One was cost, and the other was the veto of the East India Company — they had exclusive trading rights through the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Australia was right in the middle of that. They didn't want any competition," Ms Cameron-Ash tells ABC RN's Between the Lines.
They didn't think learning English would be worth the effort. The answer is already given. The Dutch knew about Australia, but the areas they encountered were mostly arid and unsuitable for occupation. They did manage to give Australia some names though.
On 28 March 1772, the Breton navigator Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn landed on Dirk Hartog Island and became the first European to claim possession of Western Australia on behalf of King Louis XV as French Western Australia (French: Australie-Occidentale française).
WA was claimed by the French in 1772, two years after the British claimed NSW. A French expedition later returned home with more than 18,000 specimens from WA. Artefacts from that trip and a second expedition are on show at the WA Museum.
Possession of Australia was declared on the basis of unilateral possession. The land was defined as terra nullius, or wasteland, because Cook and Banks considered there were few 'natives' along the coast. They apparently deduced that there would be fewer or none inland.
The Proclamation of NSW Governor Richard Bourke in 1835 implemented the legal principle of terra nullius in Australian law as the basis for British settlement.
The Mabo Case was successful in overturning the myth that at the time of colonisation Australia was 'terra nullius' or land belonging to no one. The five Meriam people who mounted the case were Eddie Koiki Mabo, Reverend David Passi, Sam Passi, James Rice and one Meriam women, Celuia Mapo Sale.
Except for giving its name to the land, neither the Netherlands nor the Dutch East India Company claimed any territory in Australia as its own.
The $835 million settlement with Naval Group for the dumped $90 billion French submarine program is expected to pave the way for enhanced defence and security links between Canberra and Paris, according to defence sources.
The Netherlands did not colonise Australia, but Dutch people in small numbers were present from 1788 onwards. Cornelius Du Heg, a seaman on the First Fleet transport Friendship, was possibly the first Dutchman to visit Port Jackson.
Australia in French is "Australie" and it is a feminine country.
The French who came to Australia after 1788, generally came in search of opportunity or new horizons. The State Library of New South Wales' collections are rich in the records of early French explorers of Australia and the Pacific region.
After Dutch navigators charted the northern, western and southern coasts of Australia during the 17th Century this newly found continent became known as 'New Holland'. It was the English explorer Matthew Flinders who suggested the name we use today.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
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.
While Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years, and traded with nearby islanders, the first documented landing on Australia by a European was in 1606. The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon landed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula and charted about 300 km of coastline.
Mining has contributed to Australia's high level of economic growth, from the gold rush in the 1840s to the present day.
Obviously the Queen does not reside in Australia, but she is represented by a resident Governor-General, now always an Australian. We do not pay the Queen any money for her upkeep or even for her duties as Queen of Australia. We do pay a salary to the Governor-General and pay for the upkeep for the official residences.
The French are -490 favorites (risk $490 to win $100) in the latest France vs. Australia odds from Caesars Sportsbook, with the Australians +1400 underdogs. A draw is priced at +525 and the over/under for total goals is set at 2.5.
In 1606, the crew of Dutch VOC vessel Duyfken, under the command of captain Willem Janszoon, made landfall near Mapoon, on the Cape York Peninsula, and constituted the first recorded contact on Australian soil between the Indigenous people of Australia and Europeans.
' Between 1606 and 1756 there were four known Dutch voyages in which a total of eight ships sailed along the North Queensland coast and made contact with the Aborigines. These encounters with the Aborigines were frequent and often resulted in violent conflict.
The islands were settled by different seafaring Melanesian cultures such as the Torres Strait Islanders over 2500 years ago, and cultural interactions continued via this route with the Aboriginal people of northeast Australia.
Eighteen years before the First Fleet arrived, Captain James Cook had claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770. Although Cook and the British government acknowledged there were people already living in Australia, they decided to colonise the land under a concept that today we call terra nullius.
In the 1860s, Victoria became the first state to pass laws authorising Aboriginal children to be removed from their parents. Similar policies were later adopted by other states and territories – and by the federal government when it was established in the 1900s.
In international law, terra nullius is territory which belongs to no state. Sovereignty over territory which is terra nullius can be acquired by any state by occupation.