President President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem tour a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located at the site of the ...

Most every nation has its legends of founders and pioneers, of promising shores and liberating revolutions. Australia, on the other hand, is a penal colony. Dating from the 1770s to the 1840s, its ...

I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its ...

Mohamed Amra, the convict freed by gunmen in a deadly motorway attack Tuesday, has a long history of convictions for violent crimes that started when he was only 15, according to judicial sources.

A joking request for a discount led National Trust of Tasmania volunteer Belinda Holloway and Victorian tourist Kevin Todd to make a "spine-tingling" discovery. They're related. Ms Holloway was ...