Hamish explained that he is leading a professional team as well as numerous volunteers and local historians to digitise, clean, code and link historical record groups relating to convict transportation and the convict landscape in general.

In recent years the team has put together over 78,000 individual records as well as 1.6 million digitised Tasmanian records in order to explore the factors responsible for influencing life course and intergenerational outcomes.

Various correlations and patterns between punishments of solitary confinement and lashes given, outbreaks of disease, life expectancies and even labour market forces were put forward in a dazzling and slick interactive presentation. The ability to link and expand on digitised data was truly incredible and indicative of the massive work that has gone into making this mind blowing achievement.