Australasian Anti-Transportation League

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

Australasian Anti-Transportation League - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Anti-Transportation League)

Australasian Anti-Transportation League
Flag adopted by the Anti-Transportation League
Region served	South Eastern Australia and New Zealand

The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was a body established to oppose penal transportation to Australia.^[1] Beginning in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in the late 1840s, it had branches in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand). The Colonial Office abandoned transportation to eastern Australia in 1852.^[2]

Development

Transportation to New South Wales (then, the colony covering the eastern Australian mainland, modern New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland) had ceased in 1840 and the number transported to Van Diemen's Land increased sharply. A two-year suspension of the transportation of male convicts to Van Diemen's Land was implemented in May 1846. It was the intention to resume transportation under new arrangements but that decision was conveyed to the local colonial administrator, William Denison in the following terms: "it is not the intention that transportation should be resumed at the expiration of the two years"; the words "under the present system" were omitted. The dispatch, taken to mean what it said on its face, was made public before the imperial authorities corrected their error.^[1]

By 1851, it had developed into the Australasian League for the Abolition of Transportation with branches on the mainland. In Tasmania's first partially elective Legislative Council, its supporters won all 16 seats up for election.^[3] The Legislative Council subsequently voted 16 to 4 to request Queen Victoria to revoke the Order in Council, permitting transportation to Tasmania and Norfolk Island in spite of the strong opposition of Lieutenant Governor William Denison. The Victorian gold rush, commencing in the same year, led the British Government to discontinue transportation, because it was seen as an incentive for criminals to be transported to eastern Australia, and the last convict ship to be sent from England, the St Vincent, arrived in Tasmania in 1853.

Flag

The League had its own flag, the Union Jack with the Southern Cross which was created before 1851 by John West,^[4] a Launceston congregational minister, author and newspaper editor.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b C. H. Currey, "Denison, Sir William Thomas (1804 – 1871)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 17 September 2011.
^ John Hirst, "Anti-transportation" in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre, (eds)The Oxford Companion to Australian History, (Oxford University Press, 2001), via Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press, accessed 17 September 2011.
^ McLaughlin, Anne (1995), "Against the -Tasmanian Anti Transportation- League: fighting the 'hated stain'", Tasmanian Historical Studies, 5 (1): 76–104, ISSN 1324-048X
^ Brady, Veronica (1996), ""To set the people free": Conviction and conscience. John West at the end of the twentieth century. [Edited transcription of The Examiner – John West Memorial Lecture delivered at the University of Tasmania at Launceston on 8 March 1996]", Papers and Proceedings (Launceston Historical Society), 8 (1996): 9–15, ISSN 1034-1625
^ Alex Druce, "Flag flown high as origins are remembered", The Examiner Newspaper (Launceston, Australia), 4 September 2011, p 8, via factiva accessed 17 September 2011. "recognised as the precursor to the Australian national flag, which was designed and flown for the first time in 1901."

Surgeons	William Bland Arthur Bowes Smyth William Redfern D'Arcy Wentworth
Entrepreneurs	Enoch Barratt Daniel Connor Daniel Cooper John Davies William Field William Hutchinson Mary Hyde Henry Kable Solomon Levey Simeon Lord Mary Reibey Robert Sidaway James Squire John Tawell Samuel Terry
Architects	James Blackburn Francis Greenway
Bushrangers and escapees	Charlotte Badger Matthew Brady Mary Bryant William Bryant William Buckley Moondyne Joe John Caesar Martin Cash William Chopin Michael Howe Lawrence Kavenagh John Mitchel Thomas Muir John Boyle O'Reilly Alexander Pearce William Westwood
Artists	Joseph Backler Thomas Bock Richard Browne Knud Bull Edmund Edgar John Eyre William Buelow Gould Joseph Lycett Charles Rodius Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Thomas Watling James Walsh
Politicians	William Cuffay William Henry Groom Kevin Izod O'Doherty
Chroniclers	Denis Cashman Margaret Catchpole Frank the Poet Henry Savery James Hardy Vaux John Acton Wroth
Explorers	John Baxter James Meehan Joseph Wild
Other convicts	Esther Abrahams John Baughan James Bloodsworth Billy Blue John Cadman Elizabeth Callaghan Margaret Dawson Laurence Hynes Halloran Mark Jeffrey Jørgen Jørgensen William Smith O'Brien Robert Palin Isaac Nichols Joseph Potaski James Ruse Elizabeth Thackery Mary Wade

Popular culture

Music	Transportation ballads "Botany Bay" "Moreton Bay" "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" "Van Diemen's Land"
Film	For the Term of His Natural Life (1908) The Assigned Servant (1911) It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911) The Lady Outlaw (1911) The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911) The Mark of the Lash (1911) One Hundred Years Ago (1911) The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911) Sentenced for Life (1911) Moondyne (1913) Transported (1913) The Tenth Straw (1926) For the Term of His Natural Life (1927) To New Shores (1937) Red Sky at Morning (1944) Under Capricorn (1949) Botany Bay (1953) Adam's Woman (1970) Journey Among Women (1977) The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008) Van Diemen's Land (2009) The Nightingale (2017)
Television	The Devil Makes Sunday (1961) The Devil Makes Sunday (1962) Against the Wind (1978) Sara Dane (1982) For the Term of His Natural Life (1983) The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005) Banished (2015) The Secret River (2015)
Literature	Journals of the First Fleet It's Never Too Late to Mend (1856) The Broad Arrow (1859) Great Expectations (1861) The Wild Goose (1867) For the Term of His Natural Life (1872) Moondyne (1879) Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) A Fringe of Leaves (1973) The Playmaker (1987) Remembering Babylon (1993) The Potato Factory (1995) Jack Maggs (1997) Gould's Book of Fish (2001) The Secret River (2005) The Lieutenant (2008) Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)
Stage	The Transports (1977) Our Country's Good (1988)
Art	Charlotte Medal Port Jackson Painter Rajah Quilt Sydney punchbowls Twenty Dollar Note

Australian
Convict Sites

Categories:

Hidden categories:

Development

Flag

References

Further reading