the New South Wales Police Gazette and charting histories of crime
- Written by Rachel Franks, Conjoint Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle

In January 1788, a small floating society — eleven ships carrying crew, crooks, some military men and a few passengers — sailed into the body of water the colonisers called Port Jackson.
In the long term, there were ambitious plans for this new outpost of the British Empire. In the short term, this colony of thieves was all about crime...





