Transporting shiploads of prisoners to that '' preposterously distant coast , '' as Thomas Keneally describes it in '' A Commonwealth of Thieves , '' his potent study of Australia 's early colonization , would be the modern equivalent of '' sending a shoplifter to some biosphere on another planet . ''
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