Australian Penal Transportation (British Crime and Punishment Part Two)
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English - July 08, 2022 12:50 - 25 minutes - 27.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 692 ratingsDocumentary Society & Culture history british history european history ancient rome african history british culture australia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On the 29 April 1770, two men attempted to stop the disembarkation of a group of strange and unwelcome visitors on a beach in what came to be known as Botany Bay in Australia. The interlopers were lead by Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy, and they were the first Europeans to make landfall in Eastern Australia. This incident had huge ramifications not just for the native Australians but also for people 10,000 miles away in Britain. With the so-called bloody code in force, Britons could face the death penalty for over 200 hundred offences. But the government lacked the infrastructure and the public the appetite for execution on an industrial scale. Australia provided a new avenue for the punishment of criminals.
In this episode I discuss penal transportation with historian Brad Manera, Senior Historian and Curator of the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney. He co-authored Australia’s submission to UNESCO which resulted in 11 penal transportation locations in the being listed as World Heritage sites. I began our conversation by asking him to explain the origins of Britain’s Australian colonies.
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Picture: A Guard tower at Port Arthur Penal colony, Tasmania
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