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Katelyn Catanzariti

Convict rebels recast as first political demonstrators

A new digital exhibition takes a fresh look at political behaviour in convict Australia. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Long before ballots were cast and parliaments built, political protest in Australia was forged in chains by the men and women banished here.

A new digital exhibition explores how the nation's earliest convicts were not simply passive victims of a brutal penal system but among Australia's first political demonstrators - organised, ideological and prepared to resist what they saw as unjust.

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