English criminals were sent to Australia because there was an overcrowding of prisons in England. This was due to the fact that people were sent to jail for stealing a handkerchief or some ridiculously petty reason.
The convicts who were transported from England to Australia were fully cared for. They were not left to fend for themselves. They were sheltered and fed, but made to work hard. If they shirked their duties, they could be flogged or have their rations reduced.
The criminals, or convicts, who were sent to Australia during the colonial years were not left to their own devices. The first group that came out on the First Fleet were accompanied by officers and marines, who not only kept Law and Order in the colony, but also distributed the provisions brought out on the Fleet. Subsequent fleets of convicts also had provisions, and within five years of the arrival of the First Fleet, the colony was successfully producing its own crops.
Criminals were not sent to Australia in 1900. Transportation of convicts was abolished in Australia in the 1848.
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They sent criminals who would have normally been sent to jail to Australia when the jails became overcrowded.
People were originally sent to Australia in exile from England. The exile was a form of punishment for England's criminals.
Many were sent to the Colonies including Australia as the war started and before that criminals were exported to Australia as their punishments. Families and friends were left behind.
The majority of the early convicts sent to Australia were harmless petty thieves, and political prisoners. It was only after the first few fleets that more violent criminals began to be transported as well, in the early 1800s.
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Water buffaloes were brought to Australia from Indonesia for meat in the 1820s. The northern part of Australia was very remote from the rest of settlement in Australia, and the early settlers needed livestock that would survive and thrive in the environment.
Australia was used as a prison for criminals from many European countries