Lambing Flat riots 1861. Victoria taxed Chinese at £10 a head. This created an illegal trade whereby the Chinese were dropped off at ports in South Australia. Chinese diggers left Australia and went back to China with their gold. It was a drain on the economy. Riots ensued at gold mines between Chinese and European diggers. So all states legislated against Chinese in 1880. Their number quickly declined and many of those who remained grew vegetables for the European community.
ST Gill may be the quintessential Australian colonial artist, yet he has never been the subject of a comprehensive retrospective exhibition. At least, not until now.
By S. T. Gill, this watercolour shows a family scene, father playing with a child on a chaise-longue, mother reading by the fireside. To download a hi-res copy, or learn more about this image, check out our catalogue: handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/143673
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The official Australian National Heritage list contains just over 100 locations such as Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef, Sydney Opera House ... and now Broken ...
Federal troops en route to Goldfield, Nevada, 1907. Labor unrest there led mine owners to petition Gov. John Sparks to request that President Theodore Roosevelt send in the army to restore order. Miners' unions denounced the owners' reports as hyperbole, but by 1908, George Wingfield and other corporate titans had effectively siezed control of the district.
The New South Wales first gold rush. Title: Philip's new map of the gold fields of Australia. Publisher: George Philip & Son, Liverpool, 1852.
Gwalia Incline Headframe.
Pualco Range Conservation Park is a park in South Australia, Australia. Mapcarta, the open map.
Menzies Western Australia
Shamrock Hotel, Alexandra, c. 1910 - c. 1915. Photographer: Lindsay G. Cumming. The Shamrock Hotel was established in the 1860s and this building, with 'Arts & Crafts' detailing, dates to the early twentieth century, according to the Murrindindi Shire Heritage Study. State Library of Victoria Image H2011.136/22.
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LINKwww.beechworth.comBeechworthLINK is one of those unique historic towns where the visitor could be forgiven for thinking they had actually stepped back in time. IMAGEhttpwww.weekendnotes.comim00706victoria-beechworth-gold-goldru
Food on the Goldfields What types of foods were eaten during the gold rush? What utensils were used to cook with? What was life like for a cook in the gold rush? What things did they cook on? Was it hard for a cook? Did the children or men ever help the women? These were…
The Designer Craft Market @ Buninyong in the Buninyong Town Hall
Account of the Meeting of Gold Diggers, on 15th December 1851 Mt Alexander Goldfields near Bendigo. Contemporary newspapers reported an estimated 40,000 diggers attended travelling from up to 20 miles away.
