Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia in the 19th Century. The lives of 60 criminals transported ...

The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. The sites are spread across ...

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The convict era in Western Australia (1850 to 1868) represents the last phase of British Transportation, raising questions about how this final evolution of the philosophical and practical aspects of ...

A Victorian tourist has been "blown away" after discovering a connection with a volunteer at the Hobart Penitentiary, with ...

Don’t try searching for Sydney’s grisly convict past on a sunny day. I was wandering the Australian city’s historic waterfront district, known as the Rocks, down one of the original lanes hand-hewn by ...

Australian death row prisoners Andrew Chan (C) and Myuran Sukumaran (L) are seen in a holding cell waiting to attend a review hearing in the District Court of Denpasar on the Indonesian island of Bali ...

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — 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 tricked ...

Confessed terror supporter David Hicks was released from an Australian prison Saturday after completing a U.S.-imposed sentence for aiding al-Qaida. Hicks became the ...

Eight people, including two Australians, were executed on drug charges in Indonesia on Tuesday, resulting in Australia withdrawing its ambassador. Mark Kelly reports. Image: AFP CANBERRA, ...

Stephen Knight received from the ARC funding to work on Australian Crime fiction in 1989-90, which led to an earlier book (1997). Most countries produce crime fiction, but the versions vary according ...