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More serious crimes, such as rape and murder, became transportable offences in the 1830s, but since they were also punishable by death, comparatively few convicts were transported for such crimes. [5] Approximately 1 in 7 convicts were women, while political prisoners, another minority group, comprised many of the best-known convicts.
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 ...
This new design had the inmates divided into three categories: the "general", "merit" and "crime" class. [15] The "crime" class women had their hair cropped as a mark of disgrace and were the incorrigibles. The "merit" or first class comprised women who had been well behaved for at least six months and women who had recently arrived from England.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union also established branches in most Australian colonies in the 1880s, promoting votes for women and a range of social causes. [206] Female suffrage, and the right to stand for office, was first won in South Australia in 1895. [207] Women won the vote in Western Australia in 1899, with racial restrictions.
Australian women prisoners who were convicts during the era of transportation (1787-1868). This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Convicts transported to Australia . It includes Convicts transported to Australia that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Propertied women in the colony of South Australia were granted the vote in local elections (but not parliamentary elections) in 1861. Henrietta Dugdale formed the first Australian women's suffrage society in Melbourne, Victoria in 1884. [45] Societies to promote women's suffrage were also formed in South Australia in 1888 and New South Wales in ...
(At the time women had the vote in only one of them: South Australia, and Aboriginal Australians in South Australia and Queensland only). It was then passed (with an amendment allowing for some appeals to the Privy Council in London) as an Act of the British Parliament: the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900.
Price had reportedly received 200 criminal convictions before murdering Vukotic. [103] Shortly after murdering Vukotic, Price went on a crime spree, including rape, robbery, and an attempted carjacking. [102] 5 April 2015, English and drama teacher Stephanie Scott was raped and murdered in Leeton NSW, on the school grounds by janitor Vincent ...