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  2. List of Australian penal colonies - Wikipedia

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    Colony Year opened Year closed Cockatoo Island: New South Wales: 1839: 1869 Rose Hill: New South Wales: 1788 Sydney Cove: New South Wales: 1788: 1840 Moreton Bay: Queensland (New South Wales before 1859) 1824 Redcliffe: Queensland: 1823: 1824 Maria Island: Van Diemen's Land: 1825: 1851 Port Arthur: Van Diemen's Land: 1830 Richmond: Van Diemen's ...

  3. Corrective Services NSW - Wikipedia

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    Corrective Services NSW. Corrective Services New South Wales (CSNSW) is a division of the Department of Communities and Justice of the Government of New South Wales, Australia. CSNSW is responsible for the state's prisons and a range of programs for managing offenders in the community. The state has 36 prisons, 33 run by CSNSW and three ...

  4. Colony of New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia. At its greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory as well as ...

  5. Telephone numbers in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Mobile phones. Within Australia, mobile phone numbers begin with 04 or 05 – the Australian national trunk code 0, plus the mobile indicator 4 or 5 – followed by eight digits. This is generally written as 04XX XXX XXX within Australia, or as +61 4XX XXX XXX for an international audience.

  6. Convicts in Australia - Wikipedia

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    In all, about 164,000 convicts were transported to the Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868 onboard 806 ships. Convicts were made up of English and Welsh (70%), Irish (24%), Scottish (5%), and the remaining 1% from the British outposts in India and Canada, Maoris from New Zealand, Chinese from Hong Kong, and slaves from the Caribbean.

  7. Penal colony - Wikipedia

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    In 1857 a penal colony was established on the island of Sakhalin. The Soviet Gulag system and its tsarist predecessor, the katorga system, provided penal labor to develop forestry, logging, and mining industries, construction enterprises, as well as highways and railroads across Siberia and in other areas.

  8. Postcodes in Australia - Wikipedia

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    History. Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) to replace earlier postal sorting systems, such as Melbourne's letter and number codes (e.g., N3, E5) and a similar system then used in rural and regional New South Wales.

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of New South Wales

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    This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of New South Wales, a former British colony now part of Australia. Pre-stamp era [ edit ] New South Wales was the first part of Australia to be settled by Europeans, and the first to operate a postal service , which in 1803 was carrying letters between Sydney and Parramatta for a 2d charge.

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