A place designed for the imprisonment and punishment of convicts.
the supplying of the convict establishment gave the settlers an assured local market
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- 1847 Earl Grey, having partaken of his cuppa, closed the convict establishment in NSW and kicked all the convicts down south to Tassie.
- The Commissariat continued to pay for all convict establishments up to 1855, and for British Military forces in New South Wales.
- Colonists had grown rich on the expenditure of the convict establishments.
- This important book examines the design of convict establishments throughout the Australian colonies.
- The Fremantle Six still carried the torment from their ordeals at the Convict Establishment.
- The secret agent, posing as an American millionaire, learned what he could about the place they called the Convict Establishment.
- The report drew attention to the cost of convict establishments.
- His first spell at the Colonial Office brought Carnarvon into contact with the administration of convict establishments.
- His duties as Commanding Royal Engineer included the construction of buildings for the convict establishment.
- Brisbane Town emerged as the administrative and military base for the convict establishment until 1842.