just wondering?
2007-08-16 10:43:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
you would be very lucky to get in to Australia with a record we are very fussy who we let in to our great country
2007-08-16 15:01:55 · answer #1 · answered by fanta 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Cessation of transportation.
The last convict ship to be sent from England, the St. Vincent, arrived in 1853, and on 10 August 1853 Jubilee festivals in Hobart and Launceston celebrated 50 years of European settlement with the official end of transportation.
Transportation continued in small numbers to Western Australia. The last convict ship to arrive in Western Australia, the Hougoumont, left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868. In all, about 164,000 convicts were transported to the Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868.
2007-08-16 12:18:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
The last convicts arrived in 1868. By that time they were in the minority of the European population as free settlers have been arriving since 1791 or 1792. In the 1850s and 1860s tens of thousands of people arrived in the gold rushes. The last of the convicts transported to Australia died in 1917.
Australia has been more or less independent of Britain since 1901 and various acts of Parliament in the subsequent years have made it more independent. While it is still officially a constitutional monarchy it is in all but name a republic.
Even before 1901 the various colonies, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria etc had their own parliaments, militias and even patent offices.
2007-08-16 22:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
All the people who get a Visa by Department of Immigration enter and live in Australia are Migrant Convicts!
2007-08-17 21:49:54 · answer #4 · answered by Aquaadventure 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
England used Australia as a means of getting rid of Irish and Scottish peasants during the land clearings. These people had farmed their land for hundreds of years, and when the English Lords decided they wanted the land for raising more sheep, they rounded up the Irish and Scottish people and deported hundreds of thousands of them to 5 different countries. Australia was among them. To think that all of the Irish and Scottish prisoners during the Land Clearings were Rapist, Criminals, etc. is an insult. The only crime committed was being born in Ireland or Scotland. And that was a crime only in the eyes of the English Lords.
2016-05-20 16:41:08 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last convicts were transported to Australia in 1868 to Western Australia.
2007-08-16 11:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by tentofield 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yes. Many countries still try to send convicts or people with criminal records to Australia under the guise of tourist. But we have very good border security and immigration department who stop them from coming in.
If you talking about the British... that stopped ages ago, mate.
2007-08-16 15:39:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
What? Australia is an independent country. Should any other government do that, that would be considered dumping.
2007-08-17 01:30:33 · answer #8 · answered by AskandAnswer 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes. yes they are. truthfully tho, the transportation of convicts was phased out between 1840 and 1868.
2007-08-16 18:16:20 · answer #9 · answered by Jo 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes but usually from the US now because all of their jails are way to full and they can't afford the electricity bill for the chair.
2007-08-17 02:33:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋