When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation was ... the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it.
Crowds rallied in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities on Australia Day, decrying the high incarceration ... the arrival of a British fleet in Sydney Harbour to establish a penal colony. For many ...
It seems that with every utterance from certain members of the political landscape, the humanity bar is lowered.