When did corporal punishment start in Australia?

Answer 1

Corporal punishment started in Australia in the late 18th century with the British penal colonies, where convicts were savagely flogged with 100s of lashes with the cat'o nine tails. The native aboriginies were horrified at the brutality of the floggings that the British introduced, so that the aboriginal women cried when they witnessed floggings being inflicted. And yet, the British had the audacity to refer to the aboriginies as 'savages' whilst considering themselves to be 'civilised'.