| Other topics include convictism, bushrangers, Australian Rules football, compulsory voting, republicanism, multiculturalism and whether Curtin was our greatest prime minister. |
| The importation of the modern state brought convictism into Australia and the convict system lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century. |
| By the early decades of the 20th century, the era of bushranging, convictism, and exploration was far enough in the past to be regarded as historical colour. |
