Was Australia invaded or settled?

Was Australia invaded
or settled

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Australia is one of the world's major cultural and economic hubs in modern times and is on
the path to become a well developed nation sporting a great deal of diversity in their population and
demographic breakdown. However, despite this fact there are certain doubts and controversies that
regularly take center stage in both public and political domain regarding its origin and the main
topic of such debates and intense discussions is whether Australia was invaded or settled
(Mascitelli, 2020). The main cause of this debate stems from the fact that Australian mainland was
successfully colonised by Britishers in the late 17th Century which after many years past is now
being looked back at both as a period of settlement and as a brutal invasion. This essay will conduct
a detailed research into the origins of Australia and the influence of the arrival of the Britishers on
its eastern coastline in order to determine whether the country was settled or invaded.
MAIN BODY
When it comes to the knowledge about the first people in Australia, the major source of all
the information comes from the field of Archaeology. The oldest human fossil remains which have
been found in the country of Australia date back to around 40,000 years ago. Despite having no clue
regarding the physical appearance of the people who first inhabited Australia, it was widely
believed that these original inhabitants were Aborigines and they still have descendants till this day.
This gives a rich estimate about the rich legacy and long-standing resistance of the Aboriginal
culture which has become more of a footnote in Australian history in recent times which is a
travesty. In order to properly determine whether Australia was invaded or settled, it is very
important to analyze the history of the country and the events that went down in the late 17th century
with regards to the Britishers. The age of discovery is a time period which started in the 1400's and
continued to the late 17th century where the Europeans began to explore various other nations in the
world through sea faring means and claiming new uncharted territories in the name of the British
Empire (Scott, 2021). This period was very unforgiving for the local population and the natives
which populated such lands which were claimed by the Europeans which was often done due to
promises of new riches and a similar story has happened with Australia. It all began in 1770 when
the famous explorer of the royal British Navy, Captain James Cook became the first recorded
Europeans to ever make contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and they proceeded to claim
it immediately in the name of George the 3rd due to Cook seeing promise of the fertile land with the
previous explorers who moved up north did not see any value in (Raeburn, 2021). Cook was often
accompanied in his journey by Joseph Banks of the royal society and he was the one who initially