Here are the main reasons you would not be eligible: 1  You have not met the eligibility requirements. 2  You have been found guilty of a felony, or pleaded guilty to a felony.
1788: Captain Arthur Phillip establishes a convict settlement at Sydney Cove. Captain Arthur Phillip RN was the commander of the First Fleet of 11 ships that sailed into Botany Bay, New South Wales, in January 1788. Three days later he chose a site at nearby Sydney Cove, in Port Jackson, and on 26 January began to establish a convict settlement.
1606 Captain Willem Janszoon in the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) ship Duyfken landed on Australia's northern coast on the western side of Cape York Peninsula at Pennefather River and charted 300 kilometers of coastline.This was the first time Europeans had made contact with and mapped part of Australia.aptain Jan Carstenszoon in the VOC ship Pera and Captain Willem van Coolsteerd in the VOC ship Arnhem explored the south coast of New Guinea and the western side of Cape York Peninsula. Cartenszoon charted the Gulf of Carpentaria naming it in honour of Pieter de Carpentier, the Governor-General in Batavia.