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Home Office - Department responsible for administration of convicts. Records include convict trial, imprisonment and transportation registers as well as convict musters and censuses in New South Wales and other convict colonies. [19] [21] War Office – Administered British regiments serving in Australia and New Zealand for much of the colonial ...
Although there was no convict assignment in Western Australia, there was a great demand for public infrastructure throughout the colony, so that many convicts were stationed in remote areas. Initially, most offenders were set to work creating infrastructure for the convict system, including the construction of the Convict Establishment itself.
Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is the government archives of the Australian State of Victoria. PROV was created by the Victorian Public Records Act 1973 [1] with responsibility for the better preservation management and utilisation of the public records of the State. It is an agency of the Department of Government Services.
Records of land surveys, grants and purchases from the 19th and early 20th centuries; Colonial/Chief Secretary's Office records from 1828 until early 20th century; Records of convicts transported to Western Australia, 1850–1868. These have been inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
James Wilson, a convict transported to Western Australia in 1867. The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small numbers of juvenile offenders from 1842, it was not formally constituted as a penal colony until 1849.
Australia has passed new laws allowing former immigration detainees to be locked up again if they pose any risk of committing serious offences after they were released in a landmark ruling by the ...
Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers ...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Migrants with criminal records face up to five years in prison for breaching their visa conditions under emergency legislation passed by the Australian Parliament on ...