Image credit: City of Parramatta Built between 1818 and ’21, the Parramatta Female Factory was Australia’s first purpose-built institution for convict women. “The factory was multiple things,” Gay ...

The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th century Australian immigration. After the end of convict transportation to New South Wales ...

Australia’s borders were closed – even ... I was haunted by what the female convicts must have endured on that journey; what it must have taken for them to survive. I knew then that I had ...

but is equally important for the story of 19th century Australian immigration. After the end of convict transportation to New South Wales, the Hyde Park Barracks became home to the Female ...