An Australian colony regarded primarily as a place of penal servitude.
he served as a governor of the early convict colony
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Resistance to the harsh discipline of the convict colonies was channelled into demands for constitutional liberties.
If the convicts who were landed there by sea in 1821 to start an 'isolated convict colony' were to return today I am sure they would be gobsmacked.
It's a historical drama about the first Australian convict colony.
Overcrowding in convict colonies was less serious than the current overcrowding among elderly people cared for in buildings constructed to house convicts.
I turn up to an Ashes game and the Barmy Army are singing 'you all live in a convict colony' to the tune of Yellow Submarine.
Nothing reveals Sydney's rise from convict colony to cosmopolitan city as deliciously as a look behind our kitchens and dining rooms doors.
He shows how a convict colony could have become a banana republic.
The acting colonial secretary had recently arrived from the convict colony of New South Wales.
The match was a contest between a caste system and a convict colony, the Australian tailenders playing the role of emancipists rising up.
In the early years of the Australian convict colonies, the fate of individual convicts turned largely on their perceived usefulness in creating a new society.