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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.
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“the present invasion by those now in the cove might be repeated many times over." - Faith Bandler, Wacvie.
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“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.
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"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.
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"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.