It was important to keep unassigned convict women contained within the site’s 4.5m walls, not just for their physical safety, but also to ‘protect’ the colony from moral decay. Visiting the Australian ...

Former asylum Willow Court joins locations such as a former concentration camp in Europe and an African slave house as one of ...

Cockatoo Island is an interesting and history-rich UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in the heart of Sydney harbour at the junction of the Parramatta River and Lane Cove River.

They were sent with other convicts to Australia and they arrived in Sydney on 27 August 1829. The Greek sailors who were illiterate and didn't know much English worked as farmworkers for landowners.