The first non-native animal in Australia was the dingo. This is contrary to common belief that the dingo originated here. The dingo is believed to have arrived in Australia 3500-4000 years ago from the Asian land mass. The second non-native animal in Australia was the cat, which came on ships with Asian traders around 500 years ago, long before European settlement.
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If the words "Australia's country animal" refer to the national faunal emblem of Australia, the answer is 'none'. There is no national animal of Australia.
The chinese were said to have discovered Australia and everybody thinks that Captian Cook discovered it but really the first people to discover Australia were the Dutch unless you incude the Aborigines in which case they discovered Australia first.
Oral tradition states that the first Greek in Australia was a convict named Damianos Gikas who arrived in 1802, but there are no written records to confirm this. The first Greeks actually documented to arrive in Australia were a group of 7 men from Hydra who were convicted of being pirates: they arrived in Australia in 1828.
Australia's first governor was Captain Arthur Phillip (1738 - 1814), who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788. He was, in fact, the Governor of the New South Wales colony.
It was Dirk Hartog who was the first European to land on the west coast of Australia.