7 Dumb Myths About Australia You Probably Believe
| June 29, 2015
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All of Their Ancestors Were Convicts
When the first settlers arrived in the 18th century, the found a land populated with Indigenous Australians: a group of people who survived by hunting and gathering. Now, 2.4% of the Australian population self-identifies as “Indigenous.” The majority trace their ancestors back to settlement groups from England, who began settling the land in 1783. Although some of the settlers were shipped over from England in convict transports, many of them were intrepid explorers who settled in a new land of their own free will.
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