When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a ...

The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. The sites are spread across ...

Tasmania's convict heritage was officially recognized by UNESCO last month, when 11 Australian convict sites, five of which are located in the southernmost state of Tasmania, were added to the UNESCO ...

I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its ...

AUSTRALIA was one of the world’s most tattooed nations when convicts were inked with symbols which carried secret meanings. Of the 160,000 convicts transported to Australia, at least 37 per cent of ...

Over 15,500 kilometers separate Ireland from Australia; despite this considerable distance, Australia hosts one of the largest Irish diasporas. In the Australian Census 2021, 9.5% of individuals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Australia, when they say "you’ve got Buckley’s chance," it means you have little to no chance. This is ironic, considering that ...