Australian History: End of Transportation
By the end of the 1830s many people in England and Australia thought that transporation should be stopped. Some reasons for this were:
- By this time a lot of people who had been born in Australia believed that Australians should govern themselves. They knew this would be impossible as long as convicts were being sent here.
- Labourers in Australia found it hard to get work as long as farmers could employ convict workers without having to pay them.