Are Australians descendants of many British criminals?

1788, the first fleet carrying colonists and criminals arrived in Australia after more than half a year's voyage. Fleet *** 1 1 ship, including more than 500 colonists and more than 750 criminals.

This day was 65438+1October 26th, so it was designated as the National Day by Australia. For the Australian aborigines, their tragic fate was doomed from this moment on, so the aborigines called this day "invasion day".

For more than half a century, the British have been transporting criminals to Australia until 1853.

During these decades, Britain has sent as many as160,000 criminals to Australia. British criminals are held here, so some people call Australia a prison for British criminals.

However, after the construction of a large number of criminals, by the end of 19, Australia has developed quite well, attracting a large number of immigrants, and the number of immigrants has far exceeded the number of prisoners. It should be pointed out that after the slavery and cruel rule of colonialists, the indigenous population has dropped from nearly 800,000 in that year to more than 200,000 today. According to normal development, today's indigenous population should reach several million.

Today, about 20% of the population in Australia are descendants of British criminals, and many of them have become businessmen, bankers, lawyers and government officials.

-It is mentioned that "/kloc-0.6 million criminals were exiled to Australia. Can you say that Australia was founded by the descendants of criminals? 》