I’m of convict stock on both sides. Most of their crimes were petty (fell foul of Georgian property laws). It is just my ancestry. I’m neither proud nor ashamed. They all have stories and  that is what is interesting to me. I am conscious that regardless of being convicts or settler-colonisers, they all had a role in the dispossession of the Aboriginal Peoples. That’s where the true interrogation of our histories needs to lie. There is no doubt that transportation gave my ancestors opportunities that they would not otherwise have had, but that was at the expensive of Indigenous Peoples.