Victorian Gold Rush In Australia Essay

In the 19th century, the economic and social of Australia had totally develop cause of the gold rushes. Before 1851, White population arrival was approximately 77,000. Over the 70 year, most of white population had been convicts sent by ship. By 2 year that seek by Edward Hargrave’s to explore the gold rushes at Bathurst, Australia’s population rise to over 540,000 and 370,000 immigrants take place in Australia’s port during the year 1852.
Before the gold rushes found in Bathurst, Victoria had been built as an individual colony in six months. It is stated that: “An announcement from the committee stated that a reward of 200 pounds would be paid to anyone who found gold within 200 miles of Melbourne.” (GoldOz n.d). Most of people agreed the challenge and go to discovered the gold in Victorian hills to collect the reward. Due to this announcement, some of the gold field has been discovered in the next few months and Victoria’s economic were not end. Nevertheless, in the central Victoria, gold was falling 14,000,000 pounds in number of 174 tone of gold in 1852 and a huge number of immigrants came from Europe and China.
They arrived in South Australia and walked various hundred kilometers to get in Victorian goldfields. They lived together as a large groups and divided duties such as mining, cooking and planting vegetable. The Chinese all worked hard and very respect the law. They always sending money to home and live simply. Also, they looked for other opportunities to earn money such as washing clothes, selling vegetable and so on. Furthermore, the Chinese customs seem to be ignorance, because of their appearance, habits was very different from the European. Later, some Chinese returned home and some continued to stay and found job as open restaurant, market and clothes shop. After, Chinese became a part of Australian’s