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James Wilson, a convict transported to Western Australia in 1867. The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small numbers of juvenile offenders from 1842, it was not formally constituted as a penal colony until 1849.
Western Australian art and artists, 1900-1950 (Western Australia State Government, 1987). Hasluck, Alexandra. Unwilling emigrants: A study of the convict period in Western Australia (Oxford UP, 1959). Philip Mennell (1892), The Coming Colony: practical notes on Western Australia (1st ed.), London: Hutchinson Heinemann, Wikidata Q19082708 ...
Staff and prisoners of Fremantle Prison occupied the former prison on The Terrace, Fremantle, in Western Australia, between 1855 [1]: 7 and 1991. [2] Fremantle Prison was administered by a comptroller general, sheriff, or director, responsible for the entire convict or prison system, and a superintendent in charge of the prison itself.
During Western Australia's convict era, the prison was known as the Convict Establishment, and was used for convicts transported from Britain. Longer term local prisoners were also held there from 1858, at a cost to the colonial government, as the then-newly constructed Perth Gaol had been handed over to the British imperial government for use ...
Although a convict-supported settlement was established in Western Australia from 1826 to 1831, direct transportation of convicts did not begin until 1850. It continued until 1868. During that period, 9,668 convicts were transported on 43 convict ships .
1–2 February 1942 – Boulder & Kalgoorlie bombings – Bombing of a boarding house containing 30 people in Boulder, Western Australia. [21] [22] 3 May – 4 November 1942 – Eddie Leonski, an American soldier stationed in Australia, murdered three women in Melbourne in what came to be called the Brownout murders. He was executed on 9 ...
The following is a list of Australian penal colonies that existed from the establishment of European presence in the 1780s up until the nineteenth century. [ citation needed ] The term colony had referred to settlements and larger land areas at that time.
Gold was discovered in northern Queensland in the 1860s and 1870s, and in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia in the 1880s. Sheep and cattle runs spread to northern Queensland and on to the Gulf Country of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the 1870s and 1880s. Sugar plantations also ...