Is someone claiming it wasn't?
The Australians I have known are in fact VERY proud of thr convict heritage!
If you were caught Jaywalking... get on the ship anything more, they put you down.
Virtually all malefactors were caught by informers or denounced to the local court by their victims.[citation needed] Pursuant to the so-called "Bloody Code", by the 1770s there were 222 crimes in Britain which carried the death penalty,[6] almost all of which were crimes against property. These included such offences as the stealing of goods worth over 5 shillings, the cutting down of a tree, the theft of an animal, even the theft of a rabbit from a rabbit warren.