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Gates of Gold, the discovery of gold, its legacy and its contribution to Australian identity, Marji Hill

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Gates of Gold

Marji Hill

the discovery of gold, its legacy and its contribution to Australian identity

The Gates of Gold is about the discovery of gold and the legacy it left that changed the face of Australia defining and shaping its identity. Learn about how in the lead up to the discovery of gold with the trail blazing of the British into Victoria and beyond the lives of First Nations people were irrevocably changed and the catastrophic impact on First Nations people and how they found ways to survive even when the odds were pitched so much against them. How Australia became like a whirlpool of molten gold sucking in men and women from all over the world creating a population explosion with diverse communities and religions, different races, and different ideologies. The coming of the Chinese, who contributed greatly to the Australian story, but whose migration to the goldfields gave birth to racist, anti-Chinese sentiment. The seeds of the Australian uprising and how the Eureka Stockade on the goldfields in 1854 was a battle inspired by political purpose a landscape transformed, a country upset, turned upside down, and a once pristine environment redesigned and how the prevailing attitudes of the Europeans in the nineteenth century justified their actions prior to the discovery of gold and its aftermath