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Australian prosecutors have dropped a charge against a Papua New Guinea government minister accused of assaulting a woman in ...

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.

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

[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 ...