It was surprising to see my Australian friend Kylie Duggan send a message wishing “Happy Australia Day” on her Facebook page ...

In 1804 Australia had its first uprising – the Castle Hill Rebellion. It was a convict uprising put down by New South Wales Corps.

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Tasmania's convict heritage was officially recognized by UNESCO last month, when 11 Australian convict sites, five of which are located in the southernmost state of Tasmania, were added to the UNESCO ...

Pauline Grosjean receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery Project DP 160100459). However, divorce may not be the price for success, but a remnant of our convict past. Attitudes ...

I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its ...

Eleven months after the First Fleet landed, Christmas was “observed with proper ceremony” according to a report from the time. But not all the convicts were prepared to make do with their extra ration ...