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WHO WERE THE CONVICTS? WHAT SHORT AND LONG TERM CONTRIBUTION DID THEY MAKE TO AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY?" During January 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed in New South Wales. Of the one thousand people who made the journey, roughly seven hundred were convicts, transpo ....

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.... genuine response to penal dilemmas . The majority of convicts were sent from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and comprised mainly working class men and women . The typical age of the British convict sent to Australia was 26, and single . The proportion of females transported was relatively low, initially compromising only 11 percent of those sent . Contrary to popular belief, most of the arriving convicts were healthy and fit with the majority of females categorized within a child bearing age. During the years of transportation between 1788 - 1868 approximately 160,000 men, women and children made the voyage to the new colony . The n ....