Because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Remove the criminal element from Britain and they believed that it would solve the criminal problem.
Far from it, it made no difference.
However, the "criminal's" had the last laugh, They were blessed with a country with perfect weather, glorious beaches and magnificence scenery.
The first people sent to colonise Australia were convicts and the officers and marines sent to supervise them.
criminals.
These were the British convicts, along with the officers and marines sent to guard them and establish the new colony.
Britain originally used Australia as a penal colony, aka a giant prison, and sent many criminals there. No British people actually moved there at the beginning for a better life or anything. Even though some actually moved out there to visit family members in that prison.
The continent of Australia was set aside for this purpose.
England because they were sent as criminals
Criminals were not sent to Australia in 1900. Transportation of convicts was abolished in Australia in the 1848.
They sent criminals who would have normally been sent to jail to Australia when the jails became overcrowded.
People were originally sent to Australia in exile from England. The exile was a form of punishment for England's criminals.
The majority of the early convicts sent to Australia were harmless petty thieves, and political prisoners. It was only after the first few fleets that more violent criminals began to be transported as well, in the early 1800s.
English criminals were sent to Australia because there was an overcrowding of prisons in England. This was due to the fact that people were sent to jail for stealing a handkerchief or some ridiculously petty reason.
Many were sent to the Colonies including Australia as the war started and before that criminals were exported to Australia as their punishments. Families and friends were left behind.
The first people sent to colonise Australia were convicts and the officers and marines sent to supervise them.
The first convicts were sent to Australia on the First Fleet, which consisted of eleven ships. Subsequent convicts were also sent on ships, as that was the only method for transporting any cargo overseas. There were no aeroplanes.
1962.
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Criminals