That hated stain': The aftermath of transportation in Tasmania∗

Reynolds, Henry

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“…This is not an original claim, though Braithwaite has made the argument most explicitly and has influentially framed recent debate. For earlier versions see Hughes 1988, 356-7, 587-8;Hirst 2008, 194-7;Reynolds 1969. Such claims perhaps reflect a much older concern for the reputation of Australia's convict settlers.…”

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Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire

2022

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Jeremy Bentham and Australia is a collection of scholarship inspired by Bentham’s writings on Australia. These writings are available for the first time in authoritative form in Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia, a volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham published by UCL Press. In the present collection, a distinguished group of authors reflect on Bentham’s Australian writings, making original contributions to existing debates and setting agendas for future ones. In the first part of the collection, the works are placed in their historical contexts, while the second part provides a critical assessment of the historical accuracy and plausibility of Bentham’s arguments against transportation from the British Isles. In the third part, attention turns to Bentham’s claim that New South Wales had been illegally founded and to the imperial and colonial constitutional ramifications of that claim. Here, authors also discuss Bentham’s work of 1831 in which he supports the establishment of a free colony on the southern coast of Australia. In the final part, authors shed light on the history of Bentham’s panopticon penitentiary scheme, his views on the punishment and reform of criminals and what role, if any, religion had to play in that regard, and discuss apparently panopticon-inspired institutions built in the Australian colonies. This collection will appeal to readers interested in Bentham’s life and thought, the history of transportation from the British Isles, and of British penal policy more generally, colonial and imperial history, Indigenous history, legal and constitutional history, and religious history.

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Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire

2022

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“…This change may be related to increased settlement linked to the development of a road (in 1843) between Little Swanport (and Hobart) to Swansea allowing better access to the region (von Steiglitz, 1955;Smith, 1969). In addition, this period also observed the end of convict transportation to Tasmania (in 1853 AD) and a move toward free settlement (Reynolds, 1969), which likely promoted the development of more extensive farms in the region, as prior to this period most major development was associated with the convict labor system (von Steiglitz, 1955).…”

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European Impacts on Coastal Eastern Tasmania: Insight from a High-Resolution Palynological Analysis of a Salt-Marsh Core

2016

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“…'Bushrangers'-escaped convicts that used the forest 'bush' for cover from the authorities and were notorious for making their living through robbery-were a widespread phenomenon in the 1800s. In the mid-nineteenth century, those released on a 'ticket-of-leave' were a constant source of unease, and perpetrated much of Tasmania's violent crime: the deviant ecology of Port Arthur had quickly spilled beyond its surveillance catchment (Reynolds, 1969). In 1848 and 1849, for example, 93% of Tasmania's serious crimes were committed by convict-emancipists who made up 68% of the population (Reynolds, 1969).…”

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“…In the mid-nineteenth century, those released on a 'ticket-of-leave' were a constant source of unease, and perpetrated much of Tasmania's violent crime: the deviant ecology of Port Arthur had quickly spilled beyond its surveillance catchment (Reynolds, 1969). In 1848 and 1849, for example, 93% of Tasmania's serious crimes were committed by convict-emancipists who made up 68% of the population (Reynolds, 1969). By the mid-1860s, following the establishment of the Separate Prison at Port Arthur, which introduced solitary confinement as a standard rehabilitation technique, Tasmania had more lunatics, prisoners, serious crime and abandoned children than South Australia and Queensland combined (Reynolds, 1969, p. 21).…”

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Ghosts of the Anthropocene: spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site

Waterton

Saul

2020

Landscape Research

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As a place of heritage, the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, Australia, provides a substantial representation of a colonial landscape. Principally associated with Australia's convict history, the vestiges that are found there today take the form of extant buildings, shorelines, cemeteries, exercise yards and cells. Port Arthur is also thought to harbour less-tangible residues of its pasts in the form of ghostly apparitions and atmospheres. Indeed, it is often referred to as being one of the most haunted places in Australia. However, rather than focus on the supernatural traces of some of the deviant criminals once imprisoned there, this article will take a broader account of 'ghosts' to consider the interrelations between human and nonhumans in the Anthropocene. To do so, we look to the abiding, 'haunting' presence of 'arboreal-others' in order to re-enliven our understanding of Port Arthur's pasts and reimagine their role in its present and future.

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That hated stain': The aftermath of transportation in Tasmania∗

Cited by 40 publications

References 1 publication

Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire

Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire

European Impacts on Coastal Eastern Tasmania: Insight from a High-Resolution Palynological Analysis of a Salt-Marsh Core

Ghosts of the Anthropocene: spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site

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