Britain accelerates the immigration of free settlers…

Britain accelerates the immigration of free settlers to Australia, having claimed the entire Australian continent by 1830.

Their numbers now beginning to swell, the settlers drive the aboriginal population farther off into the marginal lands—when not slaughtering them wholesale (as they have done in Van Diemen’s Land and will do in that portion of New South Wales that will eventually be known as Queensland. The settlers, having perpetrated total genocide in Van Diemen’s Land, will nearly annihilate the Queensland aborigines.)

By the early 1830s, the search for additional sheep-grazing land has caused settlers to spill over from Van Diemen’s Land to the mainland, where they establish the free settlement of Portland, on the west coast of what is now Victoria.