Convict labour was not employed and the colony in theory would be financially self-sufficient ; in practice government assistance was used in the early stages.

The first intended day for escape was 6 April, but the appearance of HMS Convict and other Royal Navy ships and customs officers quickly led to a postponement.

The escape was rearranged for 17 April, when most of the Convict Establishment garrison was watching the Royal Perth Yacht Club regatta.

The poem The Convict ( Wordsworth ) was in the 1798 edition but Wordsworth omitted it from the 1800 edition, replacing it with Coleridge's ' Love '.

During colonial times, the Benedictine missionary William Ullathorne ( 1806 – 1889 ) was a notable essayist writing against the Convict Transportation system.

In 1850, a board, called the Directors of Convict Prisons, was formed to replace the various bodies which had previously managed the different convict prisons.

Convict labour was used to clear the grazing land and prepare a route for the Southern Highlands railway line to Goulburn.

Convict labour was free and settlers used this to build some fine houses and estates.

Among the prominent acts he sold was The Lone Grave, The Convict and the Bird, and Here Lies an Actor.

The Melbourne Cricket Club, like many institutions of high society, was known to discriminate against the " Convict Stain ".

He was the voice of the bear in the Gentle Ben TV series, and he worked as a voice actor on animated films, notably for Walt Disney, where he portrayed the Indian Chief in Peter Pan, one of Maleficent's goons in Sleeping Beauty, the Captain of the Guard in Robin Hood, Brutus and Nero in The Rescuers, the Escaped Convict ( Gus ) in the Haunted Mansion attraction and Fidget the peg-legged bat in The Great Mouse Detective.

He was Commandant of the POW camp at Oldcastle 1914-15, and was appointed Governor of His Majesty's Convict Prison at Maryborough in 1915, before returning to Oldcastle in 1916.

A brief parody of Scared Straight was included in the television series The Office in the 2006 episode entitled " The Convict ".

After arriving in Fremantle on 9 January 1868, O ' Reilly was admitted to the Convict Establishment ( now Fremantle Prison ), but after a month he was transferred to Bunbury.

In one local hiking guide the section is identified as the " Road to Nowhere " and the " Convict Road ", although the official name is the Shoemaker Road and was planned to be an escape route in times of nuclear warfare.

* The 1951 film The Secret of Convict Lake was largely based on the events that occurred at the lake in 1871.

* According to the narrative included with the movie How the West Was Won, Convict Lake was in the opening scenes.

* An image of Convict lake was used in a CG background for a cartoon demonstration on Mythbusters.

In February 1990, Convict Lake was the site of a major drowning.

During this time, Duggan was known by two in-ring aliases: in the United States as " Big " Jim Duggan and in Hawaii as The Convict, a masked wrestler.

During 2012 the centre was used for the setting of a film, The Convict, and has been used in filming for both Home and Away and Underbelly television series.

Among the 280 convicts on board were 62 Fenian military and political prisoners — members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — six of whom managed to escape the Convict Establishment in the Catalpa rescue of 1876.

There is also a museum, containing written records, tools, clothing and other curiosities from convict times, a Convict Gallery with displays of the various trades and work undertaken by convicts, and a research room where visitors can check up on any convict ancestors.

* Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce

* Conva – a regularly featured planet first introduced in the episode " Space Pen " as a planetwide prison for criminals and featured prominently in the episode " Convict in Space ", in which one of its convicts escapes.

A posse, from Benton, led by Deputy Sheriff George Hightower, encountered the convicts near the head of what is now Convict Creek.

Collectively the Australian Convict Sites represent an exceptional example of the forced migration of convicts and an extraordinary example of global developments associated with punishment and reform.

The mountain was named for Robert Morrison, a merchant in the town of Benton, who was killed near Convict Lake on September 23, 1871 while was acting as member of a posse pursuing escaped convicts from the Nevada State Penitentiary.

) Convict ships were sent from England directly to the colony from 1812 to 1853 and over the 50 years from 1803-1853 around 67, 000 convicts were transported to Tasmania.

Convict assignment was the practice used in many penal colonies of assigning convicts to work for private individuals.

Henderson secured lodging for the convicts, then began construction of the Convict Establishment, later known as Fremantle Prison.

* Convict, as in ex-con, a person who has been convicted of a crime

His notions of physical differentiation between criminals and noncriminals were seriously challenged by Charles Goring ( The English Convict, 1913 ), who made elaborate comparisons and found insignificant statistical differences.

After four months, Bushell was adjudged ready to be returned to the Convict Establishment, but on hearing of his impending transfer he tore up his bedding and threatened to kill himself and any warders who came near him.

They would later co-write the third-season episode " The Convict ", and Merchant would direct the fifth-season episode " Customer Survey ".

* 1830: Convict chain gang starts work on causeway across Derwent at Bridgewater

Convict parties used the land around the harbour as a work area as far as Gordon River.

He was initially set to work in the kitchens of the Convict Establishment, but on 11 January 1859 he wrecked some kitchen tools and used them to clean the boilers.

By early 1857, the Lynton Convict Depot had closed and the Leonowens family were back in Perth, but in April 1857 sailed to Singapore.

They were sent on the convict ship Hougoumont and landed at Fremantle, in January 1868, after which they were moved to the Convict Establishment ( now Fremantle Prison ).

In July 2010, at the 34th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Cockatoo Island and ten other Australian sites with a significant association with convict transportation were inscribed as a group on the World Heritage List as the Australian Convict Sites.

It continued on a shingle embankment, outside the walls of the prison then on site ( see Walk No. 2 – Langdon Convict and Military Prison ), to its terminus ( just below the turning off the road onto National Trust Land ), where sidings and a ballast unloading shed were built.

Twelve teenagers and two counselors from a nearby camp were on a holiday outing at Convict Lake.

In July 2010, at the 34th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the Great North Road and ten other Australian sites with a significant association with convict transportation were inscribed as a group on the World Heritage List as the Australian Convict Sites.

Cichlids and other tropical fish that were released into the lake by the public have established populations, including Convict cichlids ( Cryptoheros nigrofasciatus ) and the African cichlid spotted tilapia ( Tilapia mariae ).