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When the First Fleet set off from England with  boatloads of convicts and tools to create a colony, they really had no idea about the place they were heading to. It was a rough arrival and a rougher few decades to follow, and one in which almost the only choice for  women was prostitution. in Convict Colony author David Hill documents the trials of a colony that originally looked like a failure.

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