If Australia is a prison colony, how is it they have a city?

Question

I mean, I saw on finding nemo, a city. but I thought Australia was a prison colony for convicts.

and what about Josef Fritzl, if he is in australia, probably a convict, how is it the guards hadn't noticed before he was captured? Why did they only find out 20 or something years later?

Answer 1

Firstly; It's very obvious you are very young and very uneducated.

Secondly; Australia is not and has never been a "Prison Colony".  Australia was initially home to the Aboriginals before it was ever discovered by James Cook.  There was only a very small part of Australia that was home to convicts and a lot of these convicts were women and when they arrived here they were no longer prisoners  They were sent here for the men to help populate the area.  If you researched Australia you would find that the crimes that these so called convicts were convicted of would, in this day and age, have been laughed at.  

I really do think you grow up, and think before you ask such immature questions.

Answer 2

nice try stirring up the natives. but only 0.5 points.

don't give up tho, we need you.

Answer 3

idiot

Answer 4

You need to crawl back into that cave you came out of and wake up in the year 2008.

Australia is not a prison colony.

Answer 5

The last convicts sent to Australia arrived about 1860, depending on the particular region.  By then the non-convict population was many times larger than the convict population because of free immigration. Even in 1830 or so there were more non-convicts than convicts.  In 1851 gold was discovered by people returning from the California gold rush and that caused a large increase in the non-convict population.

You must be American.  Did you know that before the Revolutionary War the British were sending convicts to the old 13 colonies?  Even after the war ended someone tried to land British convicts in the new USA.  

Josef Fritzl is Austrian, not Australian.  Austria is a German-speaking country in Europe. It is not the same as Australia.  You really must be American to be so ignorant.        

Answer 6

It is good to see someone giving us all a good laugh :)  Keep it up.

Answer 7

lol

Answer 8

No wonder you have - points, you are such an uneducated  dumbo.

Answer 9

BTW Josef Fritzl = Austrian. Not Australian.

Answer 10

it WAS a prison colony...about 200 years ago

Answer 11

some people are so uneducated!

Answer 12

The city is for all the prison gaurds to live in when they are not busy looking after the 20 million prisoners.

Josef Fritzl was a prison gaurd, that is why he was so talented at keeping people captive.

Answer 13

...and i thought i was stupid.