2.  starter activity Listen to the Australian convicts folk song ‘Van Diemen’s Land’. What can it reveal about popular attitudes towards the transportation of convicted criminals to Australia.  How useful are folk songs in reveal popular attitudes to crime and punishment in our period?

3. Was transportation really such a terrible punishment? TBAT to evaluate the nature of transportation as capital punishment To explore what it reveals about popular attitudes to C&P  Learning objectives  Key words: Van Diemen’s Land ticket of leave

4. Read the extract from Robert Hughes (1938-2012), best selling history of transportation and the early foundation of Australia, ‘Fatal Shore’. When he died in 2012, the Guardian newspaper noted in its obituary, “For God's sake, this was the author of The Fatal Shore, his epic story of our country's founding. He was the man who had shown us who we were, or what darkness we had to confront in order to grow up. He had grasped the cruelty of our birth and shoved it in our faces. Here, in this vast masterpiece, was the hell we were born into, and he would be our Dante. We could trust not only his research, but also his courage and breadth and depth of learning. And we would be seduced by those sentences that made him – then, in 1987, and now today – one of the greatest writers our country has yet produced.” What view does Hughes provide of transportation? Can we trust this account?  Read Clive James review of the Fatal Shore from the New Yorker, 1897

5. Watch this episode from Coast Australia on the Tasmania penal colony of Port Arthur, where many prisoners were deported to. Answer the questions provided.

6. Conduct your own research into conditions for prisoners who were transported exploring the sources on the web quest you are directed to.

7. Visit ‘The Old Bailey Online’ and create a timeline of the evolution of transportation.  Why do you think it eventually ended choose one of the statements on the next slide and explain your answer using evidence from today’s lesson?

8.  Your task Why did transportation end. Use the evidence provided and categorise it accordingly: Why did transportation end. Use the evidence provided and categorise it accordingly: Attitude of government Attitude of government Seen as an opportunity not a punishment Seen as an opportunity not a punishment Attitudes of Australians Attitudes of Australians Which reason do you think prevailed? Which reason do you think prevailed?  Can you indentify other factors that are linked to the ending of this punishment?  Can you indentify other factors that are linked to the ending of this punishment?

9. Was transportation really such a terrible punishment? TBAT to evaluate the nature of transportation as capital punishment To explore what it reveals about popular attitudes to C&P  Learning objectives  Key words: Van Diemen’s Land ticket of leave