After making a silly mistake, David Moore found himself sentenced and marked for exportation as a convict. This traumatic ...

This was an historic voyage across oceans to the other side of the world in order to establish the first European settlement, and penal colony, in Australia. The Fleet used two Royal Navy vessels as ...

From 1788 to 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were sent from the UK to Australia. And now we no longer do that, we may pack ...

At Australia’s earliest surviving female convict site, women are being written back into history.

Review: Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia – Santilla Chingaipe (Scribner) Along with capital, investors brought knowledge and attitudes – how to grow sugar in Queensland ...

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At Australia’s earliest surviving female convict site, women are being written back into history.

Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home ...

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced an Australian woman to six years in prison for smuggling amphetamines into the country, despite accepting her testimony that she was tricked ...

Two bereaved parents and 12 fellow members of an Australian religious congregation accused of killing an 8-year-old girl by withholding her diabetes medication have been found guilty of her manslaught ...