CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two convicted Australian drug smugglers were transferred on Wednesday from a Bali prison to an island for execution along with other foreigners, underlining Indonesia's ...

Kristyn Harman’s Cleansing the Colony ­reveals that New Zealand, too, fought this good fight. According to Harman, NZ’s early image of ­itself ‘‘was idealised as a new sort of colony to be populated ...

The archaeology of the penal settlement of Norfolk Island is a substantially untapped source of information about convict life, as revealed by the assemblage of artefacts excavated in 1987 from the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...