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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia was, for many decades, the open-air prison of Britain's criminals. Most were convicted of petty offenses. A quick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Australia, when they say "you’ve got Buckley’s chance," it means you have little to no chance. This is ironic, considering that ...

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 ...

The Perth District Court on Thursday convicted a 19-year-old man for sharing Islamic State beheading videos online via social media. The conviction, followed by a sentence of three years imprisonment, ...

Banished will follow the "lives, loves, relationships and battle for survival of a group of convicts" in New South Wales, Australia, 1788. How the first convicts survived is the best story I've come ...

At the height of the Clinton impeachment brouhaha, when the moralistic right were rolling their eyes and drooling at every fresh revelation of Bill Clinton's debauchery, an Australian newspaper ...

Australian Julian McMahon (L) and Indonesian Leonard Arpan, the lawyers for two convicted Australian drug traffickers on death row, walk after their appeal hearing in a Jakarta courtroom March 19, ...

An AI-generated reconstruction of an Anglesey woman is claimed to be one of the most realistic ever portrayals of a 19th Century convict shipped to Australia. Ann Williams, from Llanfechell, was ...