Both strategic and commercial motives guided the British government’s choice of New South Wales as a convict colony.

Of the roughly 760 convicts who arrived in Sydney in 1788 on the First Fleet, at least 15 were black. Between 1788 and 1842, about 80,000 male and female convicts were transported to NSW, of whom as ...

Emily Brontë wrote of cowardice, I write of erasure. Australia was not born an immigrant nation, but hammered from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Archaeological investigations of the convict systems that operated in Australia between 1788 and 1868 have invited a variety of ...

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for a re-examination of Australia’s history in a new book that insists the nation has broken with its convict past to become one of the “freest, fairest ...

As we continue to debate whether we should change the date of Australia Day, one thing is clear, we've certainly come a long way since January 26, 1788. The First European settlers were a bunch of ...

Laura Panza does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Over 25,000 Irish convict women, who were sent to Australian penal colonies between 1788 and 1853, will be remembered in a memorial in Cork. A student of visual and performance art, Christina Henri, ...

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