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The British originally established Australia to be what type of colony?

agricultural
industrial
mining
penal

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Answer:

The answer is D aka penal

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User Rajesh Narravula
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Good Morning!

Because of its distance from Britain, Australia was first designed as a penal colony in order to get criminals out of reach.

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