how colonial vagrancy laws punished the poor
- Written by: Catharine Coleborne, Professor of History, School Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
Image: https://vagrantsandmurderesses.com/Vagrancy – being found in the street without any visible means of support – was a crime in many parts of Australia right up to the final decades of the 20th century. In some jurisdictions, vagrancy laws were only repealed in the early 2000s.
Police could arrest people who were found asleep in...
