Tadeusz Kosciusko comes to Australia...

Just went to the Snowy Miuntains end of last mth when I visited friends down in Canberra, which prompts me to raise the following WI- since our highest mountain is named Mount Kosciusko after Poland's legendary patriot- so christened by the Polish explorer Edmund Strzelecki- what POD could've eventuated in Kosciusko, after his ARW service plus further nationalist activity against the Russians, deciding to flee downunder ? What role could he have played in the new colonies of Australia ? What say if he'd succeeded in mobilising the planned 1793 uprising, but was still defeated by the Russians, then had to flee for his life in such a way that he ended up being exiled to Australia ?

btw- the last qn in itself makes for an interesting POD- WI the 1793 uprising had in fact gone ahead & succeeded ?
 
This probably seems a really stupid question but...were there any settler colonies in Australia at this point? I thought it was basically all penal colonies. There was the expedition to settle western Australia (Swan Bay? something like that) but iirc that was after this date. Could be wrong, though.
 
Not bloody much would happen. The first colony in Australia was founded at present-day Sydney in 1788. 5 years isn't enough to give Australia any chance for independence. And that was a penal colony. Kosciusko would resign himself to the shame of living with felons, and die in obscurity.
 
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