Australia was, for many decades, the open-air prison of Britain's criminals. Most were convicted of petty offenses. A quick perusal through the records finds convicts transported for stealing a coat, ...

Thousands of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish convicts transported to Australia, as well as people resisting colonial ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court rejected on Monday a last-ditch challenge by two Australian drug convicts facing execution by firing squad, but lawyers for the state and defence were divided ...