“For eighty years convicts had been shipped to Australia, and a total of 163000 had set out on that voyage from which few returned. In the modern history of Europe there was rarely a planned deportation on a more ambitious scale until the era of Stalin and Hitler.” AustraliaBritish EmpireDeportationAustralian History Book:The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia Source: The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
