Gold rush
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The Gold Rush
How does this object relate to the Gold Rush and, if you struck lucky, what could a gold sovereign buy you in the 1850s?
Student quiz
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Chinese on the goldfields
By the early 1850s, news of a gold rush in Australia sparked an influx of Chinese migration to Australia.
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Electric telegraph in NSW
The electric telegraph revolutionised communication throughout the colony. It also made it easier for police to track down bushrangers
Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese Story
As Sydney celebrated its centenary in 1888, several boats carrying Chinese immigrants sailed through Sydney Heads into a crisis that would shape the nation. ‘Celestials’, as Chinese people were known at the time, had been arriving in Sydney under organised immigration schemes since the 1840s