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When the Swan River Colony was established as being a "totally free settlement"[22] (as opposed to the penal colonies over the east Coastline), with the 1840s need for affordable labour overcame an early reluctance, along with the colony agreed to accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the initial convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850 was