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James Hardy Vaux – author of Australia's first full-length autobiography and dictionary. Mary Wade – one of the youngest female convict transported to Australia (13 years of age) who had 21 children and at the time of her death had over 300 living descendants. William Westwood – bushranger and leader of the 1846 Cooking Pot Uprising
South Australia was founded as a free-colony, without convicts. The Province of South Australia was established in 1836 as a privately financed settlement based on the theory of "systematic colonisation" developed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Convict labour was banned in the hope of making the colony more attractive to "respectable" families and ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. Bank robbers Australians convicted of bank robbery ...
The following is a list of Australian penal colonies that existed from the establishment of European presence in the 1780s up until the nineteenth century. [citation needed] The term colony had referred to settlements and larger land areas at that time.
Roderick A. Davies, a 36-year-old carpenter, shot his wife and five children dead before taking his own life. [9] Boulder bombings: 1 February 1942 Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia: 14 (plus 1. perp) 15 Bombing of a boarding house containing 30 people in Boulder, Western Australia by 45-year-old Pero Raecivich. [10] Glen Innes shooting 2 ...
Both attackers were shot dead by police; four other people were killed and seven wounded. 14 February 1916 – Liverpool riot – An initial strike by 5000 AIF soldiers from Casula near Liverpool became a three-day riot and pub crawl ending at Central and East Sydney , involving commandeered trains, destruction of property, and confrontations ...
The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. The ships departed with an estimated 775 convicts (582 men and 193 women), as well as officers, marines, their wives and children, and provisions and agricultural implements.
A total of 137 people were executed under the War Crimes Act 1945, with the final executions taking place on Manus Island in 1951. [8] Most trials were held in New Guinea, although three took place in Darwin; 300 trials were held for 807 accused, with approximately two-thirds convicted and 226 death sentences imposed. [7]