Afghans first came to Australia in 1860. They accompanied a group of camels which were brought to Australia to assist some of the explorers who recognised the value of using camels on their expeditions into the arid interior. Only the Afghan camel handlers had sufficient experience with the animals.
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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.
First to the Middle East (technically speaking, Asia) and then on to Europe