SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fate dealt Honorah Sullivan a bad hand when she was found guilty of arson in the mid-19th century and put on a British convict ship bound for modern-day Tasmania. But more than 160 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has passed new laws allowing former immigration detainees to be locked up again if they pose any risk of committing serious offences after they were released in a landmark ...

Maureen Upfold was a child when she piped up with the classic existential query, “Dad, why are we here?” Behind the question was not a spiritual crisis but puzzlement over why so many pale-skinned ...

For that exploit, in which he was aided in large measure by his redoubtable Irish housekeeper Hannah Mulrooney, Monsarrat had his ticket of leave restored and was given funds with which to ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The police officer who was with a Minneapolis officer charged with murder and manslaughter in the death of an unarmed Australian woman said both men "got spooked" when she ...

"Portions of the text were previously published as 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood : Exploring Black Women's Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Camps, 1865-1917,' Labor : Studies in ...