Thousands of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish convicts transported to Australia, as well as people resisting colonial ...

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 ...

Australia Day commemorates the day Britain established New South Wales as a penal colony, with the arrival in Sydney of ships bringing colonists and convicts.

Australia was, for many decades, the open-air prison of Britain's criminals. Most were convicted of petty offenses. A quick perusal through the records finds convicts transported for stealing a coat, ...

Sydney (CNN) — An Australian businessman has been found guilty by a Melbourne court of covertly working for the Chinese Communist Party, the first verdict of its kind under the country’s foreign ...