Progression

Today Sydney is a vibrant city but Caroline Chisholm arrived in there when it was a convict town.
Caroline's thinking proved to be way ahead of her times and extremely progressive for the middle of the 19th Century.

She then went on to Australia because her husband was given furlough and everyone was going to Australia because it was the new place to go.

She arrived in Sydney, still a convict town, and found the women in similar conditions to those she had witnessed in Madras. Girls who had gone to Australia in search of a new life in a new world found themselves instead in dire poverty and need with no home or jobs. Many had resorted to prostitution, others were convicts with no hope of a future who had returned to crime in order to survive. As a result, Caroline Chisholm set up a home for them.