Alistair Scott has won the 2026 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000, for Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer boys in Van Diemen’s Land (Forty South). Urchin Convicts tells the story of the 2,100 street boys transported to the Point Puer Boys Establishment near Port Arthur in the early 19th century, amid […]