Being a convict at an Australian penal colony in the 19th century was a harrowing experience. Once there, convicts often came ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

Australia is highly unlikely to bid to host the Commonwealth Games in 2030 as it is too close to the country staging the ...

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

[3] 27. While the settlement was bound up with the expansion of trade, the rise of industrial capitalism in Britain brought far-reaching changes to the new Australian colonies. By the 1820s vast ...

Britain's colonies sent over two and a half million men to fight for Britain during the war. 24th August 1916: Soldiers in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps with their one-year-old pet ...

The spread of the deadly varroa mite across Australia poses a major threat to both honeybee populations and native ...