Glossary
| Acquitted | discharged |
| Adherence | attachment |
| Admiralty | the united kingdom department administering the navy |
| Agent-General | a representative of an Australian state usually in London |
| Anti-emancipist | opponents of the policy of freeing convicts |
| Appropriation Acts | the Authorisation by Act of government expenditure |
| Assent | agreement or consent |
| Attorney-General | The chief law minister in an Australian government |
| Allegiance | loyalty |
| Ambivalent | conflicting feelings towards the same person or object |
| Autocratic | absolute rule by one person |
| Bankrupt | unable to pay debts |
| Bartering | swapping |
| Benign | kind |
| Biased | favouring a particular point of view |
| Bona fide | genuine |
| Bribery | the act of persuading someone to act improperly in one's favour by a gift of money or services |
| Bureaucracy | government by central administration |
| Censure motion | a motion in parliament expressing harsh criticism |
| Cessation | stop |
| Civil | belonging to the people |
| Chief Justice | chief legal officer |
| Cipher | a secret or disguised way of writing |
| Cohabiting | living together as husband and wife |
| Colonial office | office in charge of the colonies of Britain based in London |
| Colonial secretary | secretary in charge of the colonies of Britain |
| Compensate | make up for |
| Controversial | debatable/causing differences of opinion |
| Constituencies | electorate |
| Debacle | disaster or collapse |
| Denounced | not approved of |
| Deterioration | made or become bad or worse |
| Dictatorial | acting like a dictator – in charge and holding absolute power |
| Dissent | disagreement |
| Dissolution of Parliament | the dismissal or dispersal of a parliament |
| Emancipists | a freed convict |
| Entrenched | firmly established |
| Erratic | unpredictably changeable |
| Exclusive | a select usually wealthy member of colonial society who did not favour the inclusion of ex-convicts into mainstream society |
| Exile | expulsion from one's native land |
| Executive council |
members of the governing party or parties that form policy and control
the appropriate government departments and instrumentalities and who are
responsible to parliament for such administration |
| Forfeited | given
up |
| Friction | conflict |
| Governor-General | the
representative of the Crown in the Commonwealth of Australia |
| Hansard | the
official record of debates in parliament |
| Hatchment | a
large usually diamond shaped tablet with a deceased person's armorial
bearings attached |
| Hierarchy | a
system in which classes are ranked one on top of the other |
| Impartiality | treating
all sides in a dispute equally |
| Impose | force
on to |
| Infuriated |
angered |
| Legislative Council | the
Upper House of Parliament in New South Wales |
| Legislature | the
lawmaking body of a state or nation |
| Levied | raised
money for the government |
| Marines | a
member of a body of troops trained to serve on land or sea |
| Mission |
a settlement for Aborigines set up by governments or churches |
| Monopolist | someone
who has complete or exclusive control of the trade in a product or service |
| Monopolised | prevented
others from sharing |
| Mutinous | rebellious |
| Mutiny | rebel
or revolt |
| Nationalist | a
person who holds strong feelings for their nation's independence |
| Non-sectarian | not
belonging or exclusive to a cult or sect |
| New South Wales Army Corps | a military unit raised in England forservices in NSW; first detachment arrived in 1790; became known as the 'Rum Corps' |
| Oligarchic | government
ruled by a small group of people |
| Pardons | allowing
convicts their freedom and release from their prison sentence |
| Patronized |
supported |
| Partisanship | the
strong sometimes unreasoning support for a party or cause |
| Patron | a
person who gives financial or other support to a person, cause, work etc. |
| Penitentiary | prison |
| Preceding | coming
before |
| Pre-emption |
the purchase or appropriation by one person or party before the opportunity
is offered to others |
| Prerogative | a
right or privilege exclusive to an individual or class |
| Prevailing | seen
as the more important feature or idea |
| Private enterprise | businesses
not under government control |
| Proprietors | owners |
| Protectorates |
the office of the protector of aboriginal peoples |
| Quadrupled | multiplied
by four |
| Quintrents | a
payment made by graziers to the government as a rent or fee for use of
crown land |
| Quintupled | multiplied
by five |
| Quorum | the
fixed minimum number of members that must be present to make the proceedings
of an assembly or society valid |
| Recession | temporary
decline in economic activity or prosperity |
| Redundant | not
needed |
| Referendum | the
process of referring a political question to the electorate for a direct
decision by general vote |
| Remit | cancel |
| Repugnant | distasteful,
against |
| Revenue | government
income |
| Revoking | withdrawing
or taking back |
| Secretaries of state | the
heads of major British government departments |
| Secessionist | a
person who supports the formal withdrawal from membership of a political
federation |
| Squatters | people
who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock |
| Squatting | occupying
crown land for grazing |
| Subordinate | of
inferior importance or rank |
| Subordinates | those
beneath (usually in position or standing) |
| Subsidized | helped
financially to keep the price down |
| Supplemented | added
to |
| Temperance | moderation
or self restraint |
| Ticket of leave | a document which allowed a convict freedom to live in the colony until the original sentence expired or he received a pardon |
| Ticket of occupation: | From the beginning of the colony these were the first authorised forms of legal land occupation. Under a "ticket of occupation" individuals were permitted to depasture stock free of charge in specified areas |
| Transactions | settlement of business |
| Transition | change |
| Veto | a
constitutional right to reject a legislative enactment |
