A decision in the 1830s to transform Moreton Bay from a penal colony to an area of free settlement helped to usher in new opportunities for the future state of Queensland. To develop the land, the ...

From the 1830s, would-be landowners, entrepreneurs and merchants from Australia’s south asked the colonial government to open all of Moreton Bay to free settlers. The government didn’t need much ...

As a powerful cyclone bears down on the region, Moreton Bay City Mayor Peter Flannery is urging residents to “stay indoors”. Speaking with Sky News host Paul Murray, Mr Flannery discussed the ...

Being a convict at an Australian penal colony in the 19th century was a harrowing experience. Once there, convicts often came up with imaginative and, sometimes desperate, ways to try and escape ...

City of Moreton Bay Mayor Peter Flannery proposed new legislation which passed by unanimous vote that bans homeless people from owning pet on December 12.

Police guard penal colony in Russia after snipers kill Islamist hostage-takers. Russia's security services shot dead four inmates who had taken hostages at a penal colony, fatally stabbed four of ...

Jennifer Harrison’s Shackled makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of female convicts. She also adds to our general knowledge of the penal settlement of Moreton Bay in Queensland.

Gordon Black, the U.S. soldier arrested in Russia in May, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 4 years in a Russian Penal Colony, local media reported.

BULL SHARKS IN Moreton Bay are a very good sign for Brisbane. The waters of this subtropical east coast waterway are as close as 14km to the city’s CBD, and the coastal lands that fringe its westerly ...

Results were then compared samples taken from previous studies in 1070, 2015 and 2019. “Over the past 50 years, 300 million cubic metres of mud has been washed into Moreton Bay – that’s ...

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, currently serving a 19-year prison sentence, has been transferred to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle. The IK-3 penal colony, located in ...

In May 1846, Lieutenant Colonel George Barney of the Royal Engineers was chosen as the new colony administrative head. He was soon despatched to Sydney and instructed to find a suitable site to the ...