A SECRET WEAPON FOR FREMANTLE PRISON

Although the Swan River Colony was proven for a "free settlement"[22] (in contrast to the penal colonies within the east coast), via the 1840s demand from customers for affordable labour overcame an early reluctance, as well as the colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the 1st convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850 w