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  2. Convict women in Australia - Wikipedia

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    It was the objective of the British government to establish a colony in Australia rather than have it remain as a penal settlement. This compelled the government to send more women to Australia as a way of establishing a native population. On the arrival of 'female' ships, colonists would swarm to the dock to bargain for a servant. High-ranking ...

  3. Mathinna (Tasmanian) - Wikipedia

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    Mathinna (c.1835 – 1 September 1852) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian girl, who was kidnapped, adopted and later abandoned by the Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife Lady Jane Franklin.

  4. Convicts in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Along with bushrangers and other stock characters of colonial life, convicts were a popular subject during Australia's silent film era. The first convict film was a 1908 adaptation of Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life , shot on location at Port Arthur with an unheard-of budget of £7000. [ 35 ]

  5. 1750–1775 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    An American girl of 1767 wears a pink satin back-fastening gown over a smock and black shoes with low heels. The Pybus Family by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The girls wear mobcaps and a straw hat. The teenage boy has powdered hair and wears a frock coat and knee length breeches. The youngest child wears a loose white frock with a cloth belt, 1769

  6. Category:Australian Aboriginal clothing - Wikipedia

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    This category describes traditional and historic Australian Aboriginal clothing. Modern Australian clothing should be categorised under Australian fashion or Clothing companies of Australia Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal clothing"

  7. 2 monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past damaged by ...

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    Two monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary of British settlement. A ...