Australasian Anti-Transportation League

Australasian Anti-Transportation League
Region served
South Eastern Australia and New Zealand

The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was an organisation that opposed penal transportation to Australia. It was established in Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania) in the late 1840s, and expanded rapidly with branches in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney in Australia, and Canterbury in New Zealand. The Colonial Office abolished transportation to eastern Australia in 1852.

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