Australia has had a history of Muslim contact since the 1750s, well before Europeans arrived, when Muslims from the Indonesian archipelago, particularly Makassarese fishermen, regularly visited northern Australia in search of trepang (sea slugs). These fishermen settled in beach camps for months at a time and lived peacefully with local Aboriginal communities. This interaction largely stopped with European settlement of northern Australia. A second wave of Muslim contact came with the Afghan camel drivers who were brought to Australia between 1860 and 1900 as part of the development of a