Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology Monday for his country's role in Britain's colonial history. Over the course of three centuries, Britain sent tens of thousands of children ...

Life in Australia’s 19th-century penal colonies was harsh and unforgiving. Isolation, punishment, and forced labor drove many convicts to attempt escape. Some plans were ingenious, others reckless.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Australia wasn't a country, it was just the name of a continent divided into six very separate British ...