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Australia was founded by the British to be a prison colony. *
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Answer:

True

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they claimed the land so that they could make a place to keep prisoners and captives. i knew this from before.

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true because New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788. Over the next 80 years, more than 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in lieu of being given the death penalty.

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