Australian Convict Paragraph I think that the Australian convicts were not treated very well, sometimes they were; forced to work in terrible conditions, not fed very well, and work for “the little things.” Some convicts were turned from a bad person to a good one. Convicts had to march to a body of water, move large logs to other nearby islands, then march back. One man was sent to jail because he stole a beehive, due to this, he had to move logs to nearby islands in the freezing cold water. The convicts were not fed very well. The daily meal was often made up of ox-cheek, a muscle in a cow, which was made into bread, peas, biscuits, or soup. The biscuits were often moldy. Although some convicts that were sent there starting bad, turned good,