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The Dutch spent considerable effort poking around the North and Western coasts of Australia in the 1600s, both to look for trading opportunities and to chart the coasts, reefs and the like in order to avoid damaging shipwrecks like the Batavia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(ship)#Murders Of course they found nothing of interest to trade as well as hostile or indifferent natives, although they did make pretty good charts and maps.
But what if they had stumbled onto the West Australian Sandalwood that grows in the interior from Perth? Sandalwood is a valuable tradable commodity which the Dutch fought to gain a trading monopoly over in Timor, would its discovery make them set up a post in Australia in the 1600s to collect it?