Tasmania, an island off the south coast of Australia, is a quiet, sparsely populated place, known today if it’s known for anything at all more for the Tasmanian devil than for the main reason it was ...

Tasmania's convict heritage was officially recognized by UNESCO last month, when 11 Australian convict sites, five of which are located in the southernmost state of Tasmania, were added to the UNESCO ...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, 12,000 British female convicts were sent to the prison colony in Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania. Convicts, held in work camps called "factories," ...

Tourism was an early money-spinner in Tasmania, with Port Arthur featuring on travel circuits by the late 1800s. In the years following the penal station’s closure in 1877, an influx of local and ...

A World-Heritage-listed convict site in northern Tasmania has been given a dose of the 21st century in an effort to secure the future of the 200-year-old property. Woolmers Estate at Longford now ...

People who bought bricks to create a memorial trail honouring their convict ancestors say they weren’t consulted about a plan to dig them up and redesign the tourist attraction. As part of a broader ...