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During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...
Prospector Charles Hall and others found alluvial gold in the eastern Kimberly region in 1885. The find created the first gold rush in Western Australia. In terms of gold yield, the rush was not particularly successful, but was the first significant find in the northern and western parts of Australia. It was nearly 40 years after the Victorian ...
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne , which was dubbed " Marvellous Melbourne " as a result of the procurement of wealth.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2012) This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information. This is a List of films about Australian history. Prior to European settlement Ten Canoes (2007) Early European settlement The Birth of White Australia (1928) Heritage (1935) Botany Bay (1953) Convicts For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 ...
1974 Australian TV series or program Rush Starring John Waters Brendon Lunney Olivia Hamnett Alwyn Kurts Max Meldrum Alain Doutey Vincent Ball Jane Harders Paul Mason Country of origin Australia Original language English No. of episodes 25 Production Running time 50 minutes Original release Network ABC TV Release 20 August 1974 (1974-08-20) – 1976 (1976) Rush is an Australian television ...
In this claim Lasseter details that as a young man of the age of 17, he rode on horse from Queensland to the West Australian gold fields, during which he stumbled across a huge gold reef somewhere near the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia. [1] [2] However Lasseter had been sentenced to reform school at that time. [2]
Holtermann with 235 kg gold specimen from Hill End, NSW. New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales resulted in a rapid growth in the population and significant boost to the economy of the colony of New South Wales
Although gold had been found in Australia as early as 1823 by surveyor James McBrien, a gold rush began when Edward Hargraves widely publicised his discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, in February 1851. Further discoveries were made later that year in Victoria, where the richest gold fields were found.