Chooks (the Austalian term for chickens) arrived with the First Fleet on 26 January 1788. The related link below lists 87 chickens as arriving on the First Fleet.
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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.
The Aborigines came to Australia during the ice age, as the sea levels were much lower, and most of the water between Australia and Africa was frozen they simply walked across from Africa. They used makeshift boats for the small area's of water they had to cross.
Elizabeth Macarthur came by ship to Australai. She was on one of the ships in the 2nd fleet.She came with her husband to help along with the affairs of her husband, John Elizabeth Macarthur came to Australia in 1789 as part of the second fleet, she was not on the first fleet. She did arrive with her husband and they estabished a farm at Parramatta.
The indigenous people of Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, were the first to inhabit Australia. Whilst it is unknown when they first arrived, estimates vary between 6,000 and 40,000 years.
Because Australia chose not to become a republic. The queen is head of Australia in Title only.