NSW was established as a penal colony around the time debates about ... "The laws of this country will, of course, be introduced in [New] South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take ...

The intention was to establish a penal colony in Australia ... who went onto become the first Governor of New South Wales . A report at the time recorded the events as follows: 'At daybreak ...

On January 26, 1788, a ship landed in the newly established British colony of New South Wales, and 751 convicts and their families disembarked in a harbor in what would become the city of Sydney.

We see in the Police Gazette, and we see more clearly through Tweedie’s visualisations, the types of crime details that were important to capture in colonial New South Wales. It was not ideal to ...

English criminal law was adopted in 1787 as part of the first Charter of Justice for the soon to be established colony of New South Wales. By 1828, when the Australian Courts Act came into being ...

There was a time in the colonial era when New Zealand was a colony of the present state of New South Wales. Not only that, but the Australian Constitution still includes an offer for New Zealand ...