An AI rendition of what John Hughes may have looked like, based on a combination of prisoner records, historical records and photos of descendants [Unshackled/Roar Films] Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

Both strategic and commercial motives guided the British government’s choice of New South Wales as a convict colony.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian jury convicted an infertile woman on Thursday of murdering a mother-of-four in a plot to gain custody of the children. Christine Lyons, 47, was found guilty ...

The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. The sites are spread across ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has helped researchers generate what they believe could have been the faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia in the 19th Century. The lives of 60 criminals deported ...