Hobart Cascades Female Factory
If you were sent to here, you may have commited a menial crime, stealing food, clothing, money, household items nothing worth more than £5.
Relatively few of the women were transported for a first offence. A few of the women even courted transportation deliberately committing crimes such as arson in order to be transported. Perhaps a few were wrongly accused, but the majority, according to the laws of the day, deserved to be transported to the other side of the world, away from kith and kin. It was a horrible feeling standing inside this location, I couldn't stay long at all.
Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more 
