CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Australians in the island state of Tasmania, a former colonial penal colony, believe they are modern convicts, imprisoned by steep transport costs. In a petition to national ...

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced an Australian woman to six years in prison for smuggling amphetamines into the country, despite accepting her testimony that she was tricked ...

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 ...

An AI-generated reconstruction of an Anglesey woman is claimed to be one of the most realistic ever portrayals of a 19th Century convict shipped to Australia. Ann Williams, from Llanfechell, was ...