soon people from sydney found other parts of australia. george bass and matthew flinders sailed south to tasmania and a colony was started at hobart in 1803. hamilton hume and william hovell went south from sydney by land. they found the murray river, and good land in victoria. thomas mitchell went inland, and found more rivers. in 1826, the first british military outpost was set up at king george sound in western australia. the swan river colony was started in 1829, with townsites at fremantle and perth. in 1836, a free-settler colony was started in south australia, where no convicts were ever sent. queensland became a separate colony in 1859. as the towns and farms spread across australia, the aboriginal people were pushed off their land. some were killed, and many died from illness and hunger. soon, australia's aborigines were outnumbered by europeans, and many were made to live on reserves.