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The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was a body established to oppose penal transportation to Australia.[1] Beginning in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in the late 1840s, it had branches in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand). The Colonial Office abandoned transportation to eastern Australia in 1852.[2]
- ^ C. H. Currey, "Denison, Sir William Thomas (1804 – 1871)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 17 September 2011.
- ^ John Hirst, "Anti-transportation" in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre, (eds)The Oxford Companion to Australian History, (Oxford University Press, 2001), via Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press, accessed 17 September 2011.