Talk:Menagerie/@comment-1.123.4.239-20151117010435/@comment-26397825-20151208070555

Plus, after a convicts sentence was served they were allowed to either stay on in Australia and become land owners, and basically new Lords and Ladies of the colony as well, or they could move back to England. I don't think the Pioneers had that option available; they were just sort of sent over and left to fend for themselves.