Are convicts still sent to Australia?

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fanta

you would be very lucky to get in to Australia with a record we are very fussy who we let in to our great country

iansand9876

Now we export them.

tentofield

The last convicts were transported to Australia in 1868 to Western Australia.

The_Mouse

Yes. Many countries still try to send convicts or people with criminal records to Australia under the guise of tourist. But we have very good border security and immigration department who stop them from coming in.

If you talking about the British... that stopped ages ago, mate.

Elizabeth

Cessation of transportation.

The last convict ship to be sent from England, the St. Vincent, arrived in 1853, and on 10 August 1853 Jubilee festivals in Hobart and Launceston celebrated 50 years of European settlement with the official end of transportation.

Transportation continued in small numbers to Western Australia. The last convict ship to arrive in Western Australia, the Hougoumont, left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868. In all, about 164,000 convicts were transported to the Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868.

Katakiuchi Perlaytony

Yes but usually from the US now because all of their jails are way to full and they can't afford the electricity bill for the chair.

tuppenybitz

are you kidding?
these days everyone wants to live in Australia so we have become picky about who gets in!

Aquaadventure

All the people who get a Visa by Department of Immigration enter and live in Australia are Migrant Convicts!

waltzsingmatilda2

Fanta is incorrect,we are letting any one into Australia,and we have the crime rate to prove it.

Clumsy Colin

Not any more matey,that was years ago,now i don't think you can get in if you have a criminal record.

nikiandneish

Yes they are, ever hear of David Hicks? Wish they dropped him off half way lol

AskandAnswer

What? Australia is an independent country. Should any other government do that, that would be considered dumping.

yes. yes they are. truthfully tho, the transportation of convicts was phased out between 1840 and 1868.

neon

Yes they still do send them here though nowadays we just take them out into the desert and let them die. Occasionally there is some kind of bureaucratic stuff-up and backpackers are sent out instead. We don't care though. Us Oshtrayans are tough.

Ken E

The last convicts arrived in 1868. By that time they were in the minority of the European population as free settlers have been arriving since 1791 or 1792. In the 1850s and 1860s tens of thousands of people arrived in the gold rushes. The last of the convicts transported to Australia died in 1917.

Australia has been more or less independent of Britain since 1901 and various acts of Parliament in the subsequent years have made it more independent. While it is still officially a constitutional monarchy it is in all but name a republic.

Even before 1901 the various colonies, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria etc had their own parliaments, militias and even patent offices.

garywb333

of course

most of them are already there

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