Compare/contrast Australia and New Zealand. How are they alike? How are they different? Answer this question in 250 words or less.

Both Australia and New Zealand were British colonies. However in the case of Australia, the colonies were established as convict settlements.New Zealand had Polynesian settlers before the Europeans came. In Australia the people were European, mostly poor Irish Catholics who didn't like the high class British. The New Zealand Europeans were loyal to Britian because they were English and Scottish.

In Australia, the earliest settlers were members of penial colonies. In New Zealand,some of the earliest European settlers were missionaries. They wanted to convert the indigineous people, called Māori. They were humanitarian; so they created a treaty, theTreaty of Waitangi where the British crown held sovereignty but allowed the Māori to own their own land and let them enjoy rights as if they were British citizens.

King, Michael (2003). The Penguin History of New Zealand. New Zealand: Penguin Books ISBN 9780143018674.