How a bunch of Australian convicts became ‘the most wanted men in the world’
Saturday 18th October 2025, 9:30PM
When the Tasmanian convicts seized the colonial Cyprus brig and made a daring dash for freedom across the Pacific, they unwittingly set off the first known encounter between Japan and Australia.
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