The Australian Gold Rush Essay

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    just as I am the new one of Western Sydney University. To begin with, the lecturer introduced some of the useful and interesting stories about Australian context in the first week workshop. I have to say, it really worked and raised my curiosity as freshman in this nation. It was talking about the history (Indigenous Australians, Cook’s exploration, the Gold Rush time and till the modern society), Culture, Economy, Workplace culture, Politics, which is great to establish a overview of “what is the real

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    of the parliament of Australia and was formed on the basis of the White Australian Policy, it main aim was to limit immigration to Australia of all non- white Europeans from Australia. Propaganda campaigns in Britain leaded to the largely popular immigration of British people seeking a new lifestyle the Australian Government was quick to condemn them with racial campaigns against the Chinese. Many state that the White Australian policy was to keep Australia’s economic statues alive and to maintaining

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    the country of Spain and were highly recognized for their amazing wool. In 1797 the first merino sheep from the royal flocks, were introduced to Australia. Although these sheep had come from Spain they were well suited to life on Australian soil. More breeding by Australian farmers soon produced an even better wool that would soon be known all over the world for its amazing quality. One of the farmers that colonized merino wool in Australia were john and Elizabeth MacArthur. John and Elizabeth produced

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    ‘Push factors’ The immigration of Vietnamese people to Australia has been occurring for over 40 years in this period of time the reason for migration has changed with the times, but predominantly began with the conflict between North and South Vietnam. With the end of WW2 in 1945, many counties and regions had been greatly affected, including the Pacific, Asia and Europe. The rise of communism, beginning in Russia, and slowly spreading to China was soon adopted by the Northern portion of Vietnam

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    Indigenous Australian Histories In my opinion, it is vital to teach both Indigenous students and non-Indigenous students the histories of Indigenous Australian. First, I think the history is a fundamental condition for Indigenous students to recognize the country or land. Second, Indigenous students get to know their ancestors’ living habits, laws, the languages they spoken, the food they ate, and many other histories and cultures. They also get to know what culture has been inherited in the twenty

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    When the California Gold Rush took off almost everyone wanted to try their luck in California, and the first thing they had to do is get there. If you on the eastern side of the United State or from European you had two choices to get to California they were the sea or land route, but if you were on the Pacific Ocean coast you direct sea route to there. The land route took you across the great United State through some of its most extremes weather and terrain, and traveler had survived the untamed

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    mother country in search of gold in the colonies and even mention a lot of the propaganda that persuaded people to travel. Time would be spent on Australia during the mid 1700s when it was discovered, but most of my time would be spent on the gold rush of 1851-1852 where thousands of people migrated in pursue of gold. This research paper would be sure to include news paper articles talking about this migration and articles talking about how people responded to the gold rush. On a research paper five

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    Federation was a major turning point in Australian history,

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    prompted a huge valuation for the Australian dollar that has weighed on different enterprises presented to exchange, for example, assembling and farming. The world price of Australia 's mining exports has more than tripled over the previous decade, while investment spending by the mining segment expanded from 2% of GDP to 8%. This mining speaks to one of the biggest shocks to hit the Australian economy in generation. This paper endeavours to evaluate some of Australian economics’ effects to the mining

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    The threat that Australians and Europeans felt led to restrictions being made on Chinese immigration in Victoria, Chinese residents in New South Wales having the same fate with restrictions being made in 1861, these restrictions remained until the early 1970’s. With support from the Australian Labour Movement to enforce these restrictions in the 1870’s and 1880’s Australia’s labour movement began to protest

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