5 SIMPLE TECHNIQUES FOR FREMANTLE PRISON

Although the Swan River Colony was established for a "no cost settlement"[22] (in contrast to the penal colonies on the east coast), by the 1840s need for reasonable labour overcame an early reluctance, as well as colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the first convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850 was unanticipated