Again, England sent criminals there expecting them to DIE.
They did not colonize for a new home. They did not want to live with a bunch of deadly spiders and birds of terror. They wanted people to suffer there.

The Cassowary AKA the Vegetarian Velociraptor

AKA The Endangered Bearosaurus

AKA The over protective Dadosaurus

AKA The Bird that still looks

(it even evolved makeshift claws out of it's feathers)
and sounds like a dinosaur!


Also Australia does have turkeys by the way

Though it's not closely related to the American turkey