AustLit

'The sentence for stealing privily from the person is execution, to be carried out on a day following the first Sunday following conviction. However, the court has a certain discretion. News has recently reached this country that there is a shortage of able-bodied women in the penal colony of New South Wales. In consequence, Alice Venning – I sentence you to 15 years' transportation.'

Source:

Radio Times, 12 May 1977, p.37.

'In the desert of Western Australia where the British slew many Aborigines, there grows a scarlet flower. The Spanish monks who also settled there in the 1850s cherished both the flower and the Aborigines.'

Source:

Radio Times, 31 January 1991, p.83.

'Norman Shillingsworth, sophisticated and city-educated, returns to the tough Northern Territory where he grew up. But the top end of Australia in 1929 is raw, uncompromising and riddled with prejudices.'

Source:

Radio Times, 13 March 1997, p.115.

'When A-muoi arrives as a refugee in Western Australia, the story of an outlaw inspires her to stand up for herself in an alien land.'

Source:

Radio Times, 19 June 1997, p.123.