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Australian Education 1788-1823

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

John R. Lawry
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The development of education in the British penal colony of New South Wales must be viewed against the background of a penal establishment, the convict population, shortages of food and equipment, stock losses, lack of experienced farmers and craftsmen, the growth of a free element among the settlers, the struggle for economic and political power in the colony, and the forbidding physical limitations of the site of settlement The colony was established, as a receptacle for offenders, on the shores of Port Jackson, described by the first governor, Phillip, as “the finest harbour in the world in which a thousand of the line may ride in the most perfect security.” The Blue Mountains hemmed in the colony to a strip of unsatisfactory farming land, the confines of which were not breached until 1813. Stores were provided for the First Fleet to enable cultivation to commence on arrival, but untold and unanticipated difficulties impeded the attainment of self-sufficiency. The whole establishment Governor included was on short rations for several years.

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Research Article
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 1965 , pp. 166 - 173
Copyright
Copyright © 1965, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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