Britain would make empty Terra Australis a penal colony: his idea had finally won.

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South Australia is the only Australian state not founded as a British penal colony.

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New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788.

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His ancestors included a superintendent of convicts at the penal colony there as well as a mayor of Sydney.

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The videos were posted in January by Vladislav Nikitenko, a local activist and the legal aid of Andrey Nalyotov - whom Mr Makhno sentenced to five years in a penal colony for fraud.

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He had constructed this big penal colony.

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