‘Cookie’, as Mr P refers to one of the world’s finest navigators and captains, did not ‘take up residency’ in Australia. Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet did. Their society was inventing the steam engine whereas the original inhabitants could not boil water. Luckily for them the colonisers were not Spanish, French or Portuguese. However, a clash of civilisations was inevitable.
The Japanese in a later century would not have been benign either, and were fought off by Australians of all backgrounds, including Aboriginals, under one flag.