Why by the 1830's, was the continuation of convict transportation to the Australian colonies under increasing scrutiny, and what arguments and interests were at stake in this debate?

By the late eighteenth century, Britain was no stranger to the process of colonisation. However from Captain Cook's first arrival at Botany Bay until the complete reprieve of the Hulks Act in 1850, successive British governments would experiment with a revolutionary style of colonisation called 'Convict Transpotation'. This would see over 115,000 convicts being transported to the two colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemans Land, in an effort to relieve a domestic surge in convict …

…therefore it had no viable future in the world's newest continent. Bibliography: 1.<Tab/>Macintyre S, 'A Concise History of Australia', (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999) 2.<Tab/>Clarke (Ed.), 'Select Documents in Australian History 1788-1850', (Halstead Press, Sydney 1955) 3.<Tab/>Miller J, 'Australia' (Thames & Hudson, Great Britain, 1966) 4.<Tab/>Broadbend & Hughes, 'The Age of MacQuarie', (Griffin Press, Sydney, 1992)