Convicts were first transported to Australia's eastern coast in 1788.
Western Australia was the last of the states to have convicts. The last convict ship to Western Australia, the Hougoumont, left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868. Transportation of convicts to Australia ceased after this.
There were no convicts in Western Australia in 1829. The first convicts in Western Australia only arrived in 1850.
Convicts first arrived in Australia in January 1788.
There was only one way for convicts to travel to Australia, and that was by way of wooden ships.
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They were simply called "convicts".
No. South Australia was the only Australian state to never use convicts for labour.
CONVICTS
The First Fleet carried the first group of convicts to Australia. It was followed later by the Second and Third fleets, but after that, shiploads of convicts sailed independently or in pairs.
Convicts stopped being transported to Australia in 1865.There are prisoners, however, which are quite different to convicts.
Great Britain originally colonised Australia with convicts. Thus, Australia was founded by convicts, marines and officers from England.