It is D England needed a place to dump their criminals so they used Australia as a dumping ground and built the penal system to house them.
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No, not C.
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No, the correct answer is D. Britain established a colony in Australia primarily to establish a penal colony. To arrive at this answer, you can eliminate options A and B, as Britain did not aim to establish cotton plantations or create a military base in the Pacific. Option C, trading with the Aborigines, is not the primary reason for establishing the colony. The main reason was to establish a penal colony, where Britain could send convicts as a solution to overcrowded prisons. This answer is supported by historical evidence and the fact that the first European settlement in Australia, Sydney, was initially established as a penal colony in 1788.
