James Wilson, Thomas Darragh, Martin Hogan, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, and Robert Cranston had been among Irish political prisoners sent to Australia as convicts. Two members of the Fremantle ...

Stranded in the wilds of Tasmania, eight convicts fled into the unknown. But when food ran out, something far darker took its place. This is the true story of The Cannibal Escape.

As an Australian schoolboy in the 1950s, John Hirst was taught “British history, geography and poetry” and sang ‘God Save the ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

A novel that tricks its readers, another exploring the "incessant gnaw" of grief after death, non-fiction about emigrating to ...

Today, I have been released.” Mahendra Hembram, one of the convicts in the high-profile murder case of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons, was released from Keonjhar ...

One has a history of mutineers and convicts, the other is a haven where nature, not humans, have ruled the day. Which one ...

CHIBA, Japan — A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced an Australian woman to six years in prison for smuggling amphetamines into the country, despite accepting her testimony that she was ...