History Main / SentencedToDownUnder

** In "The Adventure of the Priory School", this is what happens to [[spoiler:James Wilder]], the VillainOfTheWeek, for [[spoiler:scheming to steal his legitimate brother's inheritance.]]

* During the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th, this was very much TruthInTelevision. Interestingly, it was considered the merciful option, since it was available as an alternative to hanging (not that hanging was being used mercifully, as AllCrimesAreEqual notes).

And you know that I must go, ''a stor''\\

* The whole premise of the series ''Series/{{Banished}}''.

* A British tourist is visiting Australia. "Do you have a criminal record?" asks the man at customs. The tourist replies, "I didn’t think you'd need one to get into Australia anymore."
** Before you ask, yes, telling this joke to an actual Australian customs officer will reward you not with laughter, but [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore with a groan, a sigh, an eye-roll, or an impatient deadpan stare. Or some combination of the four.]]

* ''[[Film/Stranded2002 Stranded]]'' starts off with the [[Literature/TheSwissFamilyRobinson Robinson family]] being exiled to Australia. You see, the father refuses to pledge allegiance to UsefulNotes/GeorgeIII during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars, [[WitchHunt which obviously means that he's a Bonapartist]]. Of course, the family never actually makes it to Australia due to the storm that shipwrecks them on a tropical island.

* Before this convicts were transported to the American colonies. Unfortunately those [[UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution impertinent colonials rebelled against the British Crown]], necessitating the search for another dumping ground. And we do mean a search; there was literally nowhere else in the empire deemed suitable for "transportation".[[note]]Canada was out of the question for reasons both practical (it couldn't really support much of a prison colony) and political (what land hadn't been promised to the incipient Québécois had been promised to Loyalist refugees from the former Thirteen Colonies). A similar dynamic prevailed in the Cape Colony, except without the Loyalists and replacing the incipient Québécois with the incipient Afrikaners. (Also, the indigenous Africans had the same exposure to Old World diseases as the Europeans, so the arrival of Europeans in South Africa didn't cause a mass depopulation event the way it did in the Americas and--later--Australia). And the rest of the empire was not subject to settler colonialism--except perhaps Ireland, depending on your definition of the term, but that was no good because (1) Ireland was nearby and the idea of "transportation" was to send the convicts far away and (2) a large number of the convicts were ''from'' Ireland. Hence the need to found a totally new colony.[[/note]] The rest is history.

They've sent you to Van Diemen's cruel shore.\\

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[[caption-width-right:350:''Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay'', 1792]]

* Happens to Magwich in ''Literature/GreatExpectations''.

* This is to be [[ConMan Ash Cohen's]] fate in Rose Lerner's RomanceNovel ''True Pretenses,'' but he's rescued at the last minute and ends up as TheAtoner back home in England instead.

* Before this convicts were transported to the American colonies. Unfortunately those [[UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution impertinent colonials rebelled against the British Crown]], necessitating the search for another dumping ground.[[note]]And we do mean a search; there was literally nowhere else in the empire deemed suitable for "transportation". Canada was out of the question for reasons both practical (it couldn't really support much of a prison colony) and political (what land hadn't been promised to the incipient Québécois had been promised to Loyalist refugees from the former Thirteen Colonies). A similar dynamic prevailed in the Cape Colony, except without the Loyalists and replacing the incipient Québécois with the incipient Afrikaners. (Also, the indigenous Africans had the same exposure to Old World diseases as the Europeans, so the arrival of Europeans in South Africa didn't cause a mass depopulation event the way it did in the Americas and--later--Australia). And the rest of the empire was not subject to settler colonialism--except perhaps Ireland, depending on your definition of the term, but that was no good because (1) Ireland was nearby and the idea of "transportation" was to send the convicts far away and (2) a large number of the convicts were ''from'' Ireland. Hence the need to found a totally new colony.[[/note]] The rest is history.

* This is what happened to an embezzler in Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the ''Gloria Scott''". However, he and his fellow convicts rebel and seize control of the ship before they reach Australia.

* In a case of both Awesome and Heartwarming, two sheep-stealers, James and Leonard Cheatham, were subjected to this, but eventually [[WinYourFreedom bought back their freedom]], managed to marry fellow convict women and then [[CallToAgriculture settle the land in Australia]], [[{Irony}} becoming wool merchants themselves]]. Centuries later, [[RedeemingReplacement their descendant]], [[https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/wendy-robinson-qc-at-darlinghurst-courts-wendy-is-the-only-news-photo/1081045090 Wendy Robinson QC]], would become noted as a Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales. A segment of their story was one of the closing items of [[https://youtu.be/27iK4ZeqS_c?t=2277 a historical documentary on Lancaster Castle]], where they were arraigned in.

* In a case of both Awesome and Heartwarming, two sheep-stealers, James and Leonard Cheatham, were subjected to this, but eventually [[WinYourFreedom bought back their freedom]], managed to marry fellow convict women and then [[CallToAgriculture settle the land in Australia]], [[{[Irony}} becoming wool merchants themselves]]. Centuries later, [[RedeemingReplacement their descendant]], [[https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/wendy-robinson-qc-at-darlinghurst-courts-wendy-is-the-only-news-photo/1081045090 Wendy Robinson QC]], would become noted as a Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales.

* The play ''Theatre/OurCountrysGood'' is about a bunch of people sentenced to Australia.

:To make the whole thing go away, the board agreed to let Scrooge and Marley buy out Jorkin's debts -- [[MajorityShareDictator and control of the company]].

::To make the whole thing go away, the board agreed to let Scrooge and Marley buy out Jorkin's debts -- [[MajorityShareDictator and control of the company]].