A House of Commons for a Den of Thieves Australia's Journey from Penal Colony to Democracy.
In 1788, Great Britain founded a colony in Australia to swallow up its criminals. And swallow them it did - more than 160,000 men and women were transported to the Australian colonies over eight decades. Remarkably, these colonies swiftly developed into robust and innovative democracies. The 1856 Vi...
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Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited,
2020
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