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Two Way Governance: Presentation 6
How western governance
came to be in Australia
The words and ideas about Western
governance came to Australia after the
English people began to colonise the
country by moving Aboriginal people off
their lands.
Eighteen years after Captain Cook first
visited Australia in 1770 the First Fleet
arrived at Botany Bay in 1788. They
brought the British Army and Navy in
ships carrying prisoners called convicts
to set up a prison colony.
The Governor ran the colony under
direct orders from the British
Parliament.