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Sir George Gipps undated

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Henry William Pickersgill
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a4183002 / ML 4]
(Mitchell Library)

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Pickersgill, Henry William

State Library of New South Wales

The end of transportation

By the late 1840s, a strong political movement to end the convict system had formed in Sydney. Large pastoralists fought to keep their supply of cheap labour, but by 1850 the tide had turned, and no more convicts were transported to Sydney.

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Gipps, George

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Governor during the depression of the 1840s, who presided over the end of transportation of convicts.