Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia in the 19th Century. The lives of 60 criminals deported ...

Australia was, for many decades, the open-air prison of Britain's criminals. Most were convicted of petty offenses. A quick perusal through the records finds convicts transported for stealing a coat, ...

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles (right) speaks at a joint conference with Indonesian Defense Minister and President-elect Prabowo Subianto and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in ...

The police in Australia have, since the foundation of the state, played an essential role in maintaining Australian capitalism, and in the early years of the colony, extending its reach against ...

Indonesia has agreed to return to Australia the five remaining members of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling ring who are currently serving life sentences, senior government officials said over ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...

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 ...