As an Australian schoolboy in the 1950s, John Hirst was taught “British history, geography and poetry” and sang ‘God Save the ...

Many ships that brought convicts to Australia returned home ... It is an important part of Australian history and preserves an era when people's attitude toward whales was much different.

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

They were sent with other convicts to Australia and they arrived in Sydney on 27 August 1829. The Greek sailors who were illiterate and didn't know much English worked as farmworkers for landowners.

One has a history of mutineers and convicts, the other is a haven where nature, not humans, have ruled the day. Which one ...

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“We are a group who wanted to bring attention to the stories of convict women and children who were basically lost in history, because so little was recorded about them,” Ms Davidson said.