• The Lady Outlaw is a 1911 Australian silent film set in Van Diemen's Land during convict days. It was also known as By His Excellency's Command or By...
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  • The Outlaw and the Lady is a 1917 film featuring Harry Carey and released by Universal Pictures. Harry Carey Louise Lovely Jack Richardson William Steele...
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    Convicts in Australia (category Memory of the World Register in Australia)
    of the Lash, One Hundred Years Ago, The Lady Outlaw and The Assigned Servant, all released in 1911. Few convict films were made after 1930; even the Australian...
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  • hearty chap that acted on the square, And never to rob a mother of her son and only joy, Or else you might turn outlaw, like the wild Colonial Boy. One day...
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    Great Expectations (category Novels set in the 1810s)
    him, the decisive moment when Miss Havisham and Estella enter his life. This is a red herring, as the decay of Satis House and the strange lady within...
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    Norfolk Island (category 1856 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    Together with the neighbouring Phillip Island and Nepean Island, the three islands collectively form the Territory of Norfolk Island. At the 2021 census...
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    between the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sydney Cove was the site of the First Fleet's landing on 26 January 1788 and the subsequent...
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    First Fleet (redirect from The first fleet)
    ferries built in the mid-1980s are named after First Fleet vessels. The unused names are Lady Penrhyn and Prince of Wales. The majority of the people travelling...
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  • The following is a list of Australian penal colonies that existed from the establishment of European presence in the 1780s up until the nineteenth century...
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  • The Outlaws is a crime thriller comedy television series created by Elgin James and Stephen Merchant, and directed by Merchant and John Butler. It is...
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    Ned Kelly (2003 film) (category Films set in the 19th century)
    Jordan, the film's adapted screenplay was written by John Michael McDonagh. The film dramatises the life of Ned Kelly, a legendary bushranger and outlaw who...
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  • The Proposition is a 2005 Australian Western film directed by John Hillcoat and written by screenwriter and musician Nick Cave. It stars Guy Pearce, Ray...
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    New Holland (Australia) (category Maritime history of the Dutch East India Company)
    European name for mainland Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman. The name came for a time to be applied...
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    marry the junior officer on the store ship Britannia. Reibey also used the surnames Raiby, Reiby and Reibey interchangeably; the family adopted the spelling...
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    settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. It is located approximately 97 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of the state capital, Hobart. The site...
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  • convinced the Lady of Rage that he could get her a record deal, he brought her into his group. The members of the Outlaw Brothers made Rage a member of the group...
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    sons of convicts, were roughly analogous to British "highwaymen" and outlaws of the American Old West, and their crimes typically included robbing small-town...
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  • The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western...
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    Rajah Quilt (category Collections of the National Gallery of Australia)
    by Lydia Irving of the convict ship subcommittee of the British Ladies Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners. The quilt was presented...
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    exploits of 19th-century bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang, with the film being shot in and around Melbourne. The original cut of this silent film...
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  • within it. The governors are the nominal chief executives of the states, performing the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level...
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  • The Secret River is a 2005 historical novel by Kate Grenville about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores...
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  • Outlaws is the debut studio album by American southern rock band Outlaws, released in 1975. The album is known for the rock classic "Green Grass & High...
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  • The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant is a 2005 miniseries loosely based on the life of Mary Bryant, an English girl from Cornwall who in this telling...
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  • Ned Kelly (1970 film) (category Films set in the 19th century)
    mini-series on Kelly, The Last Outlaw, which aired on the Seven Network in 1980. Australian actor John Jarratt starred as Kelly. The actual body armour costume...
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    Pearce (1790 – 19 July 1824) was an Irish convict who was transported to the penal colony in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia for seven years...
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  • sentenced and transported under the convict system to Australia, who had been given a conditional or absolute pardon. The term was also used to refer to...
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  • The Australian twenty-dollar note was issued when the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966. It...
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    the two years"; the words "under the present system" were omitted. The dispatch, taken to mean what it said on its face, was made public before the imperial...
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    consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips...
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