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When the British colonized the continent of Australia in the 18th century, they established it as a dumping ground for their overcrowded prisons. Traitors, arsonists, grave robbers, petty thieves, debtors, and anyone else who found himself convicted by the (in)justice system of the time were sentenced en masse to the Land Down Under simply to clear backlogs. Men, women, and children of all ages found out the hard way that it was very easy to score a one-way ticket beyond the seas. This was possibly the original source for the term "Kangaroo Court". This trope is for instances of this special punishment. More often than not, this comes up in period pieces, due to this practice ending in the Victorian era. Modern works, especially Science fiction or Space Opera, may revive the idea of a far-off colony/world only suited for depositing troublemakers and make direct allusions to the original. Sub-Trope of Penal Colony. Compare Trading Bars for Stripes, where the prisoner is put into the military instead, and Reassigned to Antarctica, when you technically haven't been convicted of anything and it's technically not a prison sentence but the effect is still the same. Also compare The Exile and Persona Non Grata, where you aren't sent anywhere specific, but can't come back in to your country. |
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Kydd: In Command, Kydd captains a transport ship full of convicts to Australia during the Peace of Amiens. | |
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In 1824 the New South Wales penal colony instituted its own version of the trope by sending convicts to Norfolk Island. Those who had been "double convicted", having been transported to New South Wales and then committed another major crime were sent there. The island had already been abandoned once after 26 years settlement. The second attempt lasted 32 years, until in 1856 it was abandoned and descendants of The Bounty mutineers took over the island, subsequently becoming integrated with the New South Wales colony, and Australia upon Federation. | |
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Bleak Expectations: Part of the reason series Big Bad Mr. Benevolent's childhood was so lonely was because his first step-father would occasionally take part when Benevolent and his friends played Cops & Robbers, and got a little too into it, sending who he caught to Australia. | |
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Bligh was an Australian Sitcom about William Bligh's time as colonial governor as New South Wales. It naturally featured a number of characters who had been sentenced to transportation to Australia. | |
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Great Expections: The Untold Story was 1987 telemovie which follows the adventures of Abel Magwitch (from Great Expectations), the escaped convict who forced the young Pip to hide and steal for him in the first part of the story. Then it settles to Magwitch's wanderings through Europe and his journey to Australia where it shows the means he used to become a wealthy gentleman and the reasons he decided to become Pip's benefactor. | |
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"Kitty" by The Pogues. | |
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Referenced in The Simpsons. During "Bart Versus Australia", Marge and Lisa visit a statue of a convict while Homer and Bart are in court. Marge reads the inscription on the statue noting its past as a penal colony and tells Lisa to watch her purse just as a group of locals are about to rob them. Further adding to the gag, the statue is of an ancestor of Springfield's own resident criminal Snake. | |
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Given an oblique reference in The Headhunt. The first Starfleet vessel to respond to the break-in at Facility 4028, a Federation supermax prison, is the USS Brisbane. Brisbane was one of the Australian prison colonies. | |
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Sharpe: Richard Sharpe is twice threatened with being sent to command penal battalions in Australia during the series for getting in the way of various powerful interests. First in Sharpe's Regiment and again in Sharpe's Justice. | |
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Human Kind Of: Discussed and subverted in the episode "Aliens Anonymous." Judy is urged to attend a support group for Earth-dwelling extraterrestrials, only to realize that absolutely all of them hate the planet and wouldn't be there if they had any other choice. Horrified, she asks if Earth is a prison planet. When told it isn't, she then asks if it's this trope, but is promptly corrected and told that it's more like Nebraska; so unremarkable that it's the best place to hide out and avoid actual imprisonment. | |
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In a rare American occurrence, a scene in Django Unchained has Stephen summarily sentence Django to servitude in an Australian (or at least Australian-run) mining company, where he'll be worked literally to death and then buried in a mass grave, for the crime of shooting up Calvin Candie's plantation. Fortunately for Django, these particular Australians are more gullible than Stephen had anticipated, and he deals with them before returning to the plantation to pick up where he had left off during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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This is the Artful Dodger's final fate in Oliver Twist. | |
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The Dinotopia novel Windchaser starts with the wreck of a prison ship heading to Australia. One main character was a prisoner from the ship and one was the son of the ship's doctor. | |
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Stranded starts off with the Robinson family, who are English in this version, being exiled to Australia. You see, the father refuses to pledge allegiance to George III during The Napoleonic Wars, which obviously means that he's a Bonapartist. Of course, the family never actually makes it to Australia due to the storm that shipwrecks them on a tropical island. | |
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On The Young Ones, one bit scene featured two convicts on a ship bound for Australia. While one was irate about his sentence, the other was rather pleased to go where his son and daughter-in-law had been sent years earlier. | |
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Since Escape of the Artful Dodger is a sequel to Oliver Twist set in Australia, both the Artful Dodger and Fagin are transported to the show's setting this way. | |
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You're Skitting Me has a recurring sketch featuring two prisoners in stocks discussing their transportation and what they thought of their new life in Australia. | |
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The whole premise of the series Banished. | |
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Victoria: Early in the series, when Queen Victoria hears some rabblerousers are to be hanged, drawn and quartered, she's quick to order their sentences commuted to transportation. | |
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In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, this happened to Benjamin Barker, the man who would become Sweeney, who was transported for life fifteen years ago because the corrupt Judge Turpin wanted his wife Lucy for himself. | |
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In Scrooge (1951), Scrooge's boss Mr. Jorkin is found to have embezzled over £3,000 from their company, an offence for which the punishment was exile to Australia. As he's now spent all of said money, he mocks the rest of the executive board: | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Space Seed", Khan Noonien Singh's ship was the SS Botany Bay, specifically as an allusion to this. | |
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In the Temeraire series, Laurence and Temeraire get booted to Australia at the end of the fifth book. Not bad, considering that they started that book under death and breeding-ground sentences respectively for treason. They get recalled back into service at the start of the seventh book when a crisis arises that only they can deal with, but by then they've ironically become reluctant to leave, having found a peaceful, pastoral life there. | |
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In The Water-Babies, it's mentioned that one of the chimney-sweep Tom's parents is dead and the other is in an Australian penal colony. Tom has no memory of either of them. | |
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"Jim Jones At Botany Bay," famously sung by Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight, is the story of a young man sent to Australia for poaching who intends to escape and wreak bloody vengeance on his captors. | |
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Inspector Morse: In the episode "The Wench Is Dead, Part 2", Morse is forced to go on sick leave and busies himself by reinvestigating a murder case from Oxford during the 1860s, which he suspects resulted in three wrongful convictions. The men were sentenced to hang, but one found religion in prison and became a model inmate. For this his sentence was commuted at the last minute to transportation (presumably to Australia given the time period). In another episode, Morse has to travel to Australia regarding a case involving a British criminal in witness protection who was given another identity in Australia. Naturally the local police are not impressed, and make sarcastic comment about how the British were supposed to have stopped dumping their convicts on them. |
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Against the Wind: Set during Australia's colonial era over the period 1798–1812, the series follows the life of Mary Mulvane, a daughter of an Irish school master. At 18, she is transported to New South Wales for a term of seven years after attempting to take back her family's milk cow which had been seized by the British "in lieu of tithes" to the local proctor. She endures the trial of a convict sea journey to New South Wales and years of service as a convict before her emancipation and life as a free citizen. | |
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Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" has this happened to an embezzler. However, he and his fellow convicts rebel and seize control of the ship before they reach Australia. In "The Adventure of the Priory School", this is what (unofficially) happens to James Wilder, the Villain of the Week, for scheming to steal his legitimate brother's inheritance. |
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In The Nightingale (2019) the protagonist is a young Irishwoman convicted for a petty theft and deported to Tasmania. | |
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