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establishing the probation
system to replace the assignment system. The probation system was a major
feature of the convict system in Australia and Darlington Probation Station is
the most representative and intact example of this system.

Section 11: Appendices
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Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette Special Gazette 13
No. S141, 1 August 2007

TASMANIA

Hobart City

Cascades Female Factory:
About 0.5ha, Degraves Street, South Hobart, comprising Yards 1, 3, and Yard 4 South, being
Land Parcels 1/202398, 1/229358 and 1/229260.

Criterion Values

(a) the place has _ Cascades Female Factory is highly significant because of its association with
outstanding heritage _ the lives of convict women, its demonstration of the changing philosophies of
value to the nation punishment and reform as they relate to women and as a place of tremendous

because of the suffering and inhumane treatment.
place's importance

deneneieoensg oP Convict women made a significant contribution to the development of the

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a ede aiu natural or Colonies. They contributed their labour and their presence was regarded as
cultural history. contributing to social cohesion and stability and they populated the colonies.

Over half of the 25 000 convict women sent to Australia were sent to
Van Diemen's Land, the majority spending some time at Cascades Female
Factory as it was the primary site for the reception and incarceration of women

convicts. It was one of the colony's longest running penal institutions operating
from 1828 to 1856.

Female factories were a unique colonial response to the management of convict
women, one that reflects both moral and penal philosophies. The factories were
multifunctional but were intended largely for reform. They operated as places of
work, places of punishment, hiring depots and places of shelter for women
between assignments and those who were sick, infirm or pregnant.

The high exterior walls surrounding Yards 1, 3 and 4 South remaining at
Cascades Female Factory demonstrate the need to isolate convict women from
negative influences and in turn protect society from their corrupting influence.
The matron's cottage at Yard 4 South demonstrates its function both as the
residence of the administrator and a model for civil society.

Cascades Female Factory had a range of infrastructure associated with its
different functions, most of which is now archaeological remains. Yard 1 which
was initially the full extent of the factory is thought to contain subsurface
evidence of convict dormitories, twelve solitary cells, chapel, staff quarters, and
separate courtyards and buildings for the nursery, hospital, kitchen and
punishment, crime and hiring classes.

The changing approaches to punishment and reform are demonstrated in the
move from convict dormitories in Yard 1