Death or Liberty

This is the first narrative history that brings together the stories of the political prisoners sent as convicts to Australia from all parts of the British Empire. Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's 'terrorists' - to the shores of Australia. Sent as convicts to the other side of the world, these political prisoners included liberals, democ