Colonial Australia

Georgia Murphy

Jan 48 min

Exile and Punishment: A Brief History of the Moreton Bay Penal Colony

Moreton Bay penal colony (1824-1939) was designed to alienate and punish convicts.

Michael Murphy

Dec 17, 20235 min

Executed for the most heinous of crimes: Myall Creek Murderers hanged 18 December, 1838.

(Warning this blog may contain names and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders). On 18 December 1838, seven men were...

Michael Murphy

Dec 2, 20235 min

Eureka Stockade: beginning of Australian democracy, or localised riot?

At dawn on 3 December 1854 government soldiers stormed a barricade erected at Ballarat by miners of the Victorian goldfields. In a very...

Michael Murphy

Nov 19, 20237 min

A Living Hell: Surgeon Superintendents Changed Convict Transportation to Australia.

The decision by the British Government in 1786 to establish a convict settlement in New South Wales initiated a series of voyages that...

Michael J Murphy