"I mean, Australia when it was founded as a settlement, as New South Wales, [it] was on the basis ... in Australia when NSW was founded as a colony? RMIT ABC Fact Check delves into history.

On January 26, 1788, a ship landed in the newly established British colony of New South Wales, and 751 convicts and their families disembarked in a harbor in what would become the city of Sydney.

And, if you’ve ever stared quizzically at a map of our massive nation ... In the years following 1786, New South Wales was massively expanded to take up pretty much the entire continent apart ...