Early prominent Maltese free settlers in Australia | Mark Caruana

The first Maltese to arrive in Australia were convicts, transported in the 1810s for deserting their British regiments when Malta was then a British colony. The first free settler was Antonio Azzopardi, who arrived in Melbourne in 1837 and became a successful businessman. Maltese Australian historian and researcher Mark Caruana talks about some of the early prominent Maltese free settlers in Australia.