The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small numbers of juvenile offenders from 1842, it was
James Wilson, a convict transported to Western Australia in 1867
The first page of An Ordinance to provide for the due custody and discipline of Offenders transported to Western Australia; and of certain classes of Offenders sentenced therein to Transportation, 13 Vic No. 1
The Perth Town Hall, which was built with convict labour, incorporates a number of convict motifs, including windows in the shape of the broad arrow.
The Fremantle Prison whipping post
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Joseph Bolitho Johns, better known as Moondyne Joe, was a Cornish-Welsh convict and Western Australia's best-known bushranger. Born into poor and relatively difficult circumstances, he became somethin
Moondyne Joe
Remnants of a fence and well, built by Moondyne Joe
Remnants of Moondyne Joe's gate; it was this gate that he used to trap stock
![It has been said[by whom?] that the tales of Moondyne Joe inspired John Boyle O'Reilly to make his daring escape in 1869](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/John_Boyle_O%27Reilly_cph.3a38519.jpg/500px-John_Boyle_O%27Reilly_cph.3a38519.jpg)
It has been said[by whom?] that the tales of Moondyne Joe inspired John Boyle O'Reilly to make his daring escape in 1869