Rumor about australia?

Question

was it true that australia was first settled with prisoners? is there really any good history sites that are related to it. please give me a site if you can.

Answer 1

Not rumour, truth.

I'm a descendent of Irish convicts, along with over 30% of Australians

Answer 2

It still is ! You don't need history just go and see for yourself ! That land has been exploiting vulnerable people, including their own indigenous ones since Captain Cook arrived. The most recent example being trafficked s*x workers on faked up student visas, enslaved this very moment in " establishments " which are legalised and taxable ! Didn't you know that John Howard was a master pimp ?

Answer 3

Convicts to Australia.

Colourful tales of individual convicts.

Click on the name to read their story.

Robert HOBBS was born July 1763 Bishopsgate, London, England. On 27 October, 1790 he was sentenced at the Old Bailey, London to seven years transportation for stealing calico. In Windsor, NSW he married Bridget Eslin, a convict who arrived "Sugar Cane". His occupations are shown at various times as being a district constable, pound keeper and farmer. He died and was buried at Pitt Town NSW in February, 1839.

Answer 4

Yes, we are descendants of convicts sent to Australia because the British gaols were full and America had just become independant (we could have ended up there!). Many great sites on the web to give you the history details. Try these ones listed.

Answer 5

yep the british sent the prisoners sailing straight into bondi

Answer 6

If you looked it up in some GOOD history books you wouldn't have asked this question.

Answer 7

Its a little difficult to say for sure, but its pretty unlikely that the first people to set in Australia were prisoners. Of course that was between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, so we can't say for sure.

As for European settlers, yes the first permanent settlement in Sydney was established in 1770 to house convicts. The earliest record of Europeans living permanently in Australia was the two sailors abandoned there as a punishment after the wreck of the Batavia in 1629. They were both male though, so they probably don't count as settlers really.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_...

Answer 9

For Australian history see

http://www.australianexplorer.com/austra...

For transportation of  convicts to Australia see

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/a...

Answer 10

Convicts from the UK actually but close.

Answer 11

In 1788 Sydney , the very first European settlement in Australia, was in fact a prison (without walls).  This is why Australia's largest city is so far from anywhere else in the world.   They didn't want the prisoners escaping.    They used the prisoners to cultivate the land and start up the new colony of New South Wales.     In later years free settlers, and prisoners who had finished their sentence, outnumbered the prison population.  In 1842 they demanded the British end their transportation of prisoners to Sydney.

It should be noted that not all of the Australian colonies started off as prisons.    Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria were free settlements.   South Australia particularly was started up by free settlers with absolutely no funding help from Britain.  Many of the settlers were escaping oppressive continental European regimes.   In South Australia they tried to make a better society all round.       Some of the laws and changes they made there were the first and most radical of their kind in the world.  Changes likes giving women the vote, recognising aboriginal land ownership, better working conditions  and so forth.

Australia has a fairly brutal and painful early European settlement history in many places.   At that same time it had sparks of brilliance and tolerance that eventually surpassed the history the settlers arrived with to make the country we have today.