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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 ...
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.
These convict records are listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World heritage database as being a record of forced emigration at the beginning of the modern age of globalisation which transformed the lives of those British and Irish convicts, and largely destroyed the lives and culture of Australia’s Indigenous people. [2]
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 ...
Convict Barracks, Sydney, Australia, c.1819 Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, 1840s Hyde Park Barracks in a 1914 drawing by William Hardy Wilson. The Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney is a heritage-listed former barracks, hospital, convict accommodation, mint and courthouse and now museum and café located at Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government ...
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.
The High Court of Australia ruled last month that an unnamed and stateless Rohingya man held in immigration detention after serving time for child sexual offences was being unlawfully detained as ...
The mess hall was built west of the convict barracks and, with further walling to the southwest and northwest, completed the enclosed nature of the convict precinct. Following the Industrial School and later prison period, and after the Commonwealth took over, the mess hall was altered for office purposes and the windows were enlarged.