To give it a bit of context, it was January 26, 1788 (Jan 26 is now Australia Day), as the first British settlers were arriving, that New South Wales was established as a penal colony (I will save ...

Wales will be in danger of being seen as a penal colony for England if a new super-prison is built, a leading campaigner for prison reform has warned. Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard ...

New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788. Over the next 80 years, more than 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia from England ...

Go Inside Australia's Former Penal Colonies. In 1788, 751 convicts and their families disembarked in the newly established British colony of New South Wales.

Is Kate the Princess of NEW SOUTH WALES? One of her ancestors was aboard the first Royal Navy fleet which landed to build a penal colony, writes CLAUDIA JOSEPH. By CLAUDIA JOSEPH .

It was an audacious plan which, if it had been carried out, would have seen Australia renamed Australie and New South Wales replaced, perhaps, by New France.

Jimmy McGovern's new BBC drama is set in a New South Wales penal colony established in 1788 by 1,000 British convicts, marines and seamen. Ellen E. Jones. Friday 27 February 2015 01:00 GMT.

Banished - a new drama for BBC Two set during the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788. ... You originally developed a film around the plight of the first convicts in New South Wales.

In the northern hilltops of New South Wales, New England is a cool-climate region of lush terrain and vineyards producing elegant wine styles. New England once held some of Australia’s early ...

New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788. Over the next 80 years, more than 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia from England ...