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An overview of the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s and its impact on AustraliaTRANSCRIPT
- The Gold Rush
- Gold Rush: earlier discoveries
- Convicts found gold and were flogged
- Authorities were worried about a rush
- Well have our throats cut!
- Gold Rush
- Gold Rush: around the world
- Other 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: Victoria
- The 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: impact
- With 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 Cultures
- The 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: Victoria
- The 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
- 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
- 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