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.

The colonisation of Australia is an important part of the secondary History curriculum. This series introduces two early settlements of Sydney and Melbourne and discusses the impact of colonisation on ...

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 ...

In good times, they largely stick with their partners, although there’s often a bit of hanky-panky happening on the side.' ...

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 ...

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