British settlers arrived in 1788, needing to feed a growing penal settlement to the south at Sydney Cove.

BBC: A wild river valley outside of Sydney

In 1895, the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal to aid the Uitlanders (mainly British settlers) in the Boer republic, began.

CNN: Monday,

Though foxes are of recent introduction in Australia (having been brought for sport by British settlers), many marsupial predators, now extinct, were present before the arrival of man in both his Aboriginal and his European forms, so the ecological system of plants, herbivores and carnivores in the eucalyptus forests would probably not have been that different in the evolutionary past.

ECONOMIST: Ecology raids the techniques of chemistry