During the 18th century, England sought out remote locations to house prisoners as a solution to its overcrowded jails. In ...

As new agricultural areas opened across Australia, wheat became our primary crop and eventually an export commodity.

Amid a debate surrounding the Black Lives Matter protests in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the colony of NSW was founded on the basis there would be no slavery.

Tony Abbott has authored a new history of Australia, from the uncertain convict settlement of 1788 to the prosperous, fair and free nation that it is today, shaped by Indigenous, British and ...

Australian military history is still unsure how to represent the frontier wars. Uprising contests most histories, describing ...

Yoorrook means “truth” in the Wemba Wemba language of northwest Victoria. The four-year inquiry – the longest with the power ...

One noted critic of this so called disaster is Associate Professor & Director, Centre for the History of Christian Thought & Experience, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia, Dr Stuart Piggin. Dr ...

He wrote: “And so the young parson and his wife, Mary, came to the new convict settlement of Botany Bay. So great were the bustle, excitement and confusion when the vessels reached Port Jackson and ...

Convicts labour at the Port Arthur penal station in Tasmania in 1843. It's not clear if they had been transported from New Zealand but this coloured lithograph shows the conditions. State Library ...

TxDOT is also constructing a flyover at US 290 and Hwy 71, removing traffic lights at William Cannon Dr, Convict Hill Rd, RM 1826, Scenic Brook Dr and Circle Dr.

Federal jury convicts Cedar Rapids man for selling heroin/fentanyl mix to Marion couple who died from overdoses in 2023. He faces 40 years and possibly up to life in federal prison.