The Australian Features: Recent Episodes
The Australian
Arthur Phillip had a brilliantly simple idea for turning the colony from a prison to a community.
Confronted by the limitations of Botany Bay, the First Fleet leader rowed north and discovered a body of water beyond his dreams.
Becalmed on stifling oceans, officers record their low opinions of the female convicts and order hellish punishments for four of them.
The fleet sets sail from England, a young child, would-be mutineers and a convict planning escape aboard.