Convicts in Australia

Grant opens his horizons and shares what he's taught himself about one of the few things he knows about Australian history: its beginnings as a penal colony. Over 80 years, on 806 ships, over 164,000 convicts were sent to the colonies of Australia, which were built on their backs. Who defines crime, and who benefits from it? How does a nation's founding legend shape its identity? Did they earn more than an expunged record?

Links!

• A Proposal For Establishing a Settlement in New South Wales.
• Convict Records
• Convict sites on the World Heritage List
• Australian convict pirates in Japan: evidence of 1830 voyage unearthed

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