Michael Bray writes:
> Martin, aren't you forgetting that Austrailia was settled by British
> convicts who were exiled there?

Those that went there as convicted criminals were sent there to serve
sentences.  They weren't the only people who went.  Adelaide, for
example, was never a prison colony.

martin

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