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The Gold Rush
Gold Rush: earlier discoveries• Convicts found gold and were
‘flogged’• Authorities were worried about
a ‘rush’• ‘We’ll have our throats cut!’
Gold ‘Rush’
Gold Rush: around the worldOther ‘rushes’: • California ‘rush’ 1848-49• 1851 Victorian gold rush began• biggest of several Australian gold
rushes • many miners from Victoria later
travelled to join a gold rush in NZ
• this ‘rush’ kick-started New Zealand's economy
Gold Rush: VictoriaThe Victorian gold rush • was highly significant for the
development of Victoria and Melbourne
• This included political development economic development
Gold Rush: Bendigo buildings
Gold Rush: Ballarat buildings
Gold Rush: impactWith the Australian gold rushes came • construction
• first railways• first telegraph lines
• migrants other places and cultures (beginning of multicultural Australia)
• outbreaks of racism • the Eureka Stockade and changes to the
system for election of parliamentarians in Victoria (and later Australia) – vote for all adult males
• the end of transportation of convicts
Gold Rush: transport
• Many city people left for ‘the diggings’ • Establishment of rich country towns• Development of transport
Gold Rush: Chinese Miners
• Organised into groups, worked hard• Worked on mines others had left• Saved money, started businesses
Gold Rush: Many CulturesThe people who ‘rushed’ to the goldfields• Came from all over Australia• Came from all over the world, inclding
•Chinese• Irish•Russiona
Gold Rush Chinese migrants
•2,000 buried at Beechworth Cemetery (in Victoria)
Gold Rush Chinese migrants
• largest non-British group of migrants during this period
• in 1852 there was 400 Chinese immigrants
• in 1855 more than 4,000
Gold Rush: VictoriaThe Victorian gold rush • began just when Victoria became
independent• thousands of miners arrived quickly
•only 50 police and soldiers in colony•hard to find police – criminals and
misfits• Victorian government needed money• Victorian government controlled by rich
farmers•introduced system of licences for gold
diggers
Victorian Gold Rush: Licences
Mining Licences
• expensive• not everyone
found gold• police
harassment• series of events
led to unrest
Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
The Stockade • People from
around the world• Agreed to stand
together• http://
www.eurekaballarat.com
Birth of the Eureka Flag
Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
EUREKA DECEMBER 3, 1854(Oil on Canvas) Artist: George Browning A.M. (1918-2000)
Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
• many killed or arrested
• leaders found ‘not guilty’ by jury
EUREKA DECEMBER 3, 1854(Oil on Canvas) Artist: George Browning A.M. (1918-2000)
Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
EUREKA DECEMBER 3, 1854(Oil on Canvas) Artist: George Browning A.M. (1918-2000)
Eureka Stockade: outcomes
• Change in the Victorian law about who could vote
• Leader Peter Lalor voted into Victorian parliament
• parliament awarded a pension of 4,000 pounds when he retired in 1887