Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia by Janet McCalman

“… Australia is rich in population datasets generated to manage convicts, civilians, stock, land and the colonised and displaced First Nations people. …”
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Framing Colonial Australia: A Socio-historical Articulation of the Display of Art by Anita Gowers

“…During the first half of the nineteenth century European settlement was consolidated in Australia. The industrialisation of convict transportation saw vast numbers of lawbreakers sent unceremoniously to Australian shores, with the newly emergent convict settlements of Hobart Town and Sydney quickly becoming Antipodean slums: untidy, unruly and in dire need of civilising. …”
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Disproportionate, differential and targeted treatment: people who use drugs’ experiences of policing during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shelley Walker, Kasun Rathnayake, Paul Dietze, Peter Higgs, Bernadette Ward, Margaret Hellard, Joseph Doyle, Mark Stoove, Lisa Maher

“…For example, in Victoria, Australia, discretionary fines of A$1,652 were issued for breaching stay-at-home orders, and A$4,957 fines for ‘unlawful gatherings’; to date, approximately 30,000 fines remain outstanding or not paid in full. …”
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