When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation was ... the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it.

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 ...

The First Fleet arrives at Sydney Cove. The British would later found the penal colony and first European settlement in Australia. Credit: State Library of Victoria ...

The colonisation of Australia is an important part of the secondary History curriculum. This series introduces two early settlements of Sydney and Melbourne and discusses the impact of colonisation on ...