The First Fleet did not come alone. Captain Phillip did not only bring people and provisions - he brought institutions which are with us today and which have made this nation.
To be free, and to enjoy that freedom, man must live in an ordered society. We cannot live in a state of anarchy or a state of nature where, as Hobbes famously put it, life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
The First Fleet did not come alone. Captain Phillip did not only bring people and provisions - he brought institutions which are with us today and which have made this nation. 
To be free, and to enjoy that freedom, man must live in an ordered society. We cannot live in a state of anarchy or a state of nature where, as Hobbes famously put it, life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
