How did great britain use australia as a penal colony?

Seeking to pre-empt the French colonial empire from expanding into the region, Britain chose Australia as the site of a penal colony, and in 1787, the First Fleet of eleven convict ships set sail for Botany Bay, arriving on 20 January 1788 to found Sydney, New South Wales, the first European settlement on the continent

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c 3 branches because idk why they had 3 well when:

you think of it there are still contrys with 3

both include an amendment process.