A House of Commons for a Den of Thieves Australia's Journey from Penal Colony to Democracy.

In 1788, Great Britain founded a colony in Australia to swallow up its criminals. And swallow them it did - more than 160,000 men and women were transported to the Australian colonies over eight decades. Remarkably, these colonies swiftly developed into robust and innovative democracies. The 1856 Vi...

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Main Author: Wakeling, Adam
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Language:English
Published: Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited, 2020.
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