THE SMART TRICK OF FREMANTLE PRISON THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

While the Swan River Colony was set up as a "cost-free settlement"[22] (compared with the penal colonies on the east coast), through the 1840s demand for affordable labour overcame an early reluctance, along with the colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the primary convict ship Scindian on two June 1850 was surpri