Today, transportation seems a brutal way to punish criminals, but there were a number of factors, including the Agricultural ...

The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading ...

It seems that with every utterance from certain members of the political landscape, the humanity bar is lowered.

When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation ... of the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it.

Sussan Ley says Australia Day is a day of celebration, likening the arrival of the British First Fleet to Elon Musk's efforts ...

It was important to keep unassigned convict women contained within the site’s 4.5m walls, not just for their physical safety, but also to ‘protect’ the colony from moral decay. Visiting the Australian ...

Melbourne and other cities on Australia Day, decrying the high incarceration rates, poor health and historic persecution of the continent’s first inhabitants, whose ancestry stretches back 60,000 ...

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and German-speaking Australians. Discover extraordinary ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include a Spanish Inquisition ceremony being performed, the first church ...

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