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Autrailian Prisoners.

Apart from us Brits, did any other nation send their scum to Oz?

Abdulmajid Tue 17/06/08 20:00

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misundrstood
Tue 17/06/08
21:50

thats a damn good question

Whickerman
Tue 17/06/08
22:52

Have a look here

http://www.convictcentral.com/

glasman
Wed 18/06/08
13:45

In sixty years in the 18th and 19th centuries Britain also caused the transportation of, on average, 2.500 Irish each year to New South Wales. They were convicted for such crimes as stealing a goose, looking suspicious, catching a salmon, or shooting a pheasant. I have little doubt that your own people whom you describe as scum were convicted and transported for similar offences.

sddsddean
Wed 18/06/08
17:10

We transported convicts to Oz after the American revolution (so we couldn't send them there any more!). If you want a really good read about the whole situation from start to finish, I recommend 'The Fatal Shore' by Robert Hughes. Its a big book, so try your local library to save buying it.

letterpage
Wed 18/06/08
20:46

Alot of Irish men and women Im afraid, a song that i cant spell correct is, the fields of athenroy about those Irish men and women who went to oz and never seen again.

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