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- "It is true that the British Government have ceased to deport the criminals of England, but the method of punishment, of which deportation was a part, is still in existence. Port Blair is another Port Arthur, filled with Indian men instead of Englishmen; and New Caledonia, the French penal settlement, will probably repeat in its own annals the fearful history of Macquarie Harbour and of Norfolk Island." - Marcus Clarke, Preface to For the Term of His Natural Life.
- “the present invasion by those now in the cove might be repeated many times over." - Faith Bandler, Wacvie.
- “The convict mentality was not merely a 19th-century phenomenon. It has persisted through Australian history, morphed into many forms of imprisoning, each incarnation more sophisticated, more technologically advanced than the previous one." - Behrouz Boochani, The Australia Prison.
- "In the South Sea Islands the name of the British Empire is even now dishonoured by the connexion of some of my subjects with these nefarious practices; and in one of them the murder of an exemplary Prelate has cast fresh light upon some of their baleful consequences." - Queen Victoria, 6 February 1872, UK Parliamentary Debates.
- "It was like they were siphoning people from Palm Island, from Woorabinda, bringing down people from Kowanyama, from Yarrabah, from a lot of places from North Queensland, and they were put into the dormitories and then not staying there for a long time, about a year or six months or something like that. Then they were moved somewhere else." - Dhoombpoo Lionel Fogarty, Interview with Dhoombpoo Lionel Fogarty.
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Conversation with Dhoombpoo Lionel Fogarty on Gadigal Country, 2025. -
Conversation with Winnie Dunn
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Conversation with (Waskam) Emelda Davis, ASSIPJ President
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Conversation with Iqbal Asadi, on Zoom, 2026. -
Conversation with an Aboriginal South Sea Islander Woman on Gadigal Country, 2025.
- Cleveland Youth Detention Centre
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Cape Barren Island Reserve - Lavender Bay
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Roderick Early Career Researcher Visiting Fellows Associate Professor Roger Osborne speaks to Roderick Centre Fellows Dr Keyvan Allahyari, Dr Meg Brayshaw and Dr Dashiell Moore about how the projects they are undertaking at James Cook University speak to the present and future of Australian literary studies. -
Public Seminar by Dr Dashiell Moore, University of Sydney ‘The Blackbirding Archipelago in Australian and Pacific Literatures’ Throughout history, islands have been physically and imaginatively constructed as a site of enforced isolation beyond a mainland territory: for quarantine, incarceration, and indefinite detainment. Drawing on Edouard Glissant’s concept of archipelagic thought, Dr Moore asks, under what conditions can we identify connections between islands of containment?