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England's Experimental Colony: The First Settlement In Australia, Frances M. Casazza
England's Experimental Colony: The First Settlement In Australia, Frances M. Casazza
Honors Theses
Almost 200 years ago, the first white settlers stepped on the shores of Australia. They were not there for freedom or opportunity, but rather for punishment. England's prisons were overflowing and their solution was sending the convicts away and forgetting about them. Australia's history and first eighty years of development began in this shadow. From 1787 until 1867 the English Government transported convicts to their penal colony in Australia. In all over 160,000 convicts were sent. The initial settlement and the reasons behind it were uniquel. England's attempt to establish a self-sufficient convict colony was the firs tof its kind. …
Dark Deeds In A Sunny Land: Or Blacks And Whites In North-West Australia, J. B. Gribble
Dark Deeds In A Sunny Land: Or Blacks And Whites In North-West Australia, J. B. Gribble
Research outputs pre 2011
The frontier of European settlement in the colony of Western Australia a hundred years ago stretched way beyond the south-western corner to the far north, and pastoralists were pushing steadily inland wherever the countryside offered promise of a living to be gained. Only the presence of Aborigines stood between them and the land they sought. On a frontier as far from the colonial capital as this where governmental representatives were few or absent, the newcomers were largely free to deal with the Aboriginal presence in their own way. Whether relations between the original inhabitants and the invaders were mostly peaceful …