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Conviction politics :
An Australian Research Council Linkage Digital History Project. The NSW Teachers Federation is a project partner. The multi-media hub includes texts, films, music and objects supporting stories and profiles of individuals from the convict era. "Trade unionism and democracy did not start with Eureka or the strikes of the 1890s. They landed on our shores shackled in chains." -- Publisher. "Conviction Politics is an international digital history project exploring the impact of radicals and rebels transported as political convicts to Australia on their place of exile, and the patterns of collective resistance by the mass of unfree convict men and women to the exploitation of their forced labour." -- Publisher. "Trade unionism and democracy did not start with Eureka or the strikes of the 1890s. They landed on our shores shackled in chains." -- Publisher. "Conviction Politics is an international digital history project exploring the impact of radicals and rebels transported as political convicts to Australia on their place of exile, and the patterns of collective resistance by the mass of unfree convict men and women to the exploitation of their forced labour." -- Publisher.