Multi-racial convicts?

OTL the Brits sent to Australia convicts of largely British origin, but what if for whatever reason they decided to dump in Australia malcontents from all across the Empire? Why might they do this, and how would it affect the development of Australian society and the Empire in general?
 

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OTL the Brits sent to Australia convicts of largely British origin, but what if for whatever reason they decided to dump in Australia malcontents from all across the Empire? Why might they do this, and how would it affect the development of Australian society and the Empire in general?


A future all-color Australia policy? :p
 

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OTL the Brits sent to Australia convicts of largely British origin, but what if for whatever reason they decided to dump in Australia malcontents from all across the Empire? Why might they do this, and how would it affect the development of Australian society and the Empire in general?

They had African, black briton and Caribbean convicts and Tasmania had upwards of about 40 Africans settle as well as some India Indians.

Regardless of the racial composition and proportions of the convicts the aboriginals would not be able to remain the same as they always had. Had the convicts been willing and able to trade resources and ideas/acculturate the aboriginal population a Oorlam and later Baster and Griqua like population could have formed but disease would still wipe out many of the first contact populations.

At best however we can look at the Flinders Islanders who are the descendants of Tasmanian and Victorian aboriginal women and English, Scottish, Maori and Indian men who took up the mutton birding and even sometimes whaling industry.

We can also look at the Wampanoag, Pequot, Narragansett and other New England tribes who in the 17th and 18th century supported the integration of AfricanAmerican runaways and free borns and later cape verdean whalers that basically made up the majority of men in the tribe. This mixed population became the standard mix for the region and even produced one who was a major backer in the early Leonean colony who was owner and captain of a boat.

Idk unless you get people who themselves are discontented to the British most will likely perpetuate the same kinds of discrimination in hopes of better treatment themselves (think the immigrant Bagdadi Jews in India and their discrimination towards Malabar jews).
 
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