Sleep Story 241 – South Australia and Western Australia
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The Origins of the Australian Colony
New South Wales was taken up by Great Britain as a convict depot. Van Diemansland, which is now Tasmania and Morton Bay were occupied as convict dependencies to the parent establishment. On the same principle, New South Wales sent an offshoot convict depot to King George's Sound in Western Australia. In this way, all the now existing Australian colonies have either owed their origin to convicts, or have been at one point of their existence, fostered by convict labour. But South Australia has never been blessed or cursed, with the custody of a single British exile.
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