So the book is called An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, Principally Designed for the Use of Immigrants. And it was by a man called Edward Curr. And this book actually became quite ...

How much do you know about Aboriginal history in Van Diemen's Land? And how much of what we have learnt is accurate - especially if most of it comes from a white perspective? What happened during ...

Debut feature writer/director Jonathan Auf Der Heide and writer/star Oscar Redding have crafted a genuinely creepy and supremely cinematic tale of survival and moral decay with their horrific ...

Other stamps also belie the horrors of the imperialism that often led to the establishment of short-lived 19th and 20th-century countries: an 1856 stamp from Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious pen ...

Considering we’re talking about a thrilling real-life story involving a cannibal convict here – a man who lost it in the harsh terrain of Van Diemen’s Land, and ultimately turned on his own ...

Co-written by auf der Heide and actor Oscar Redding, Van Diemen’s Land came from a 20-minute short about Pearce, Hell’s Gates, the pair made at the Victorian College of the Arts.

The problem with bringing his tale to the screen is a dramatic one: how do you make the story of a man who claimed to have eaten his fellow convicts something we can bear to watch? Oscar Redding ...

The problem with bringing his tale to the screen is a dramatic one: how do you make the story of a man who claimed to have eaten his fellow convicts something we can bear to watch? It's just too ...