TOP GUIDELINES OF FREMANTLE PRISON

Whilst the Swan River Colony was founded being a "absolutely free settlement"[22] (unlike the penal colonies about the east Coastline), from the 1840s demand for cheap labour overcame an early reluctance, plus the colony agreed to accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the 1st convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850 was unpredicted, as bein