Labels:text | screenshot | font | number OCR: People English, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, Aboriginal languages THE FIRST SETTLERS ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA almost 100,000 years ago. Their modern descendants, the Aborigines, today make up less than 1% of the population. European settlement began in 1788 and was dominated by British and Irish immigrants - some of whom were convicts - until the gold rushes of the 1850s. Immigrants of other nationalities - including many Chinese - arrived to prospect for gold, then settled in the cities, especially Melbourne and Sydney. When the new federal government was installed in 1901, one of its first acts was to prevent further Chinese immigration. The act set out the 'White Australia' policy, which conditioned attitudes to immigration for almost 70 years. A massive immigration drive after the Second World War brought many more British settlers to Australia in the 2 people per km² Religous Population [treakdown Urban/Rural Population Split Ethnic Makeup 0 HKO F
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