THE SMART TRICK OF FREMANTLE PRISON THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Whilst the Swan River Colony was established as being a "no cost settlement"[22] (compared with the penal colonies about the east Coastline), from the 1840s desire for reasonable labour overcame an early reluctance, plus the colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the first convict ship Scindian on two June 1850 was