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The discovery of gold was officially announced as having occurred at Ophir, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales, in May 1851. Less than three months later, on 9 August 1851, Victoria had its first gold strike at Sovereign Hill near Balla...
The last Australian gold rush was in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, in the 1930s. Prior to that there were many different goldrushes in various parts of Australia.
The Gold rushes caused a massive influx of people into the country. Small towns or stopovers in the middle of nowhere suddenly became towns. The wealth that came out of the goldfields included the gold but also the taxes, fines and general ...
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The Gold Rush created a labour shortage as many people took off to try and find their fortune on the gold fields..... this in turned helped those that stayed to work .. to demand more money for doing so... the image of the city of Melbourne...
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The gold rush actually spanned several decades, but was spread out over different states. It began with the "official" discovery of gold in New South Wales and Victoria in 1851, and continued through to the Western Australian gold...
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Gold was discovered in Australia as early as the 1830s, but discoveries were kept secret, for a number of reasons. Gold was first officially discovered in Australia in 1851, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales. Edward Hargraves is credit...
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The gold rush in Australia started in 1851. It began tentatively with the first strike of payable gold near Ophir in NSW, then began in earnest several months later when gold was found in August in Ballarat, Victoria. While the Ballarat gol...
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･ One of the main effects of the gold rushes was on the growing agricultural industry. Many men who worked ... ･ Because major gold discoveries were made in Victoria, this newly separated state suddenly found itself ... ･ Immigration was a ...
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Miners were prone to: ･ cholera ･ typhoid ･ scurvy ･ tetanus
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There are many ways in which the gold rush in Australia shaped the country's history. One of the ways it shaped Australian history was through immigration. Enormous numbers of immigrants, especially Chinese, brought their unique cultural in...
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