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In the Colony of NSW men still outnumber women by an estimated 20 to 1
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There are now nearly 12,000 white people in the colnies of NSW and Van Diemen's Land.
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There are an estimated 24,000 white people in NSW.
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Transportation to Van Diemens Land is put on hold for two years, as too many convicts flooding into the colony, and the system is at breaking point.
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British Government gives in to popular demand and separates the new colony of Victoria from NSW.
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Victoria alone holds more people than its gold-rush rival, California.
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In Victoria a 'free, compulsory and secular' Education Act passed. All children over 6 must go to school
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Governor bourke of NSW introduces annual squatting license fees to regulate land use, and to try and stop squatters from killing indigenous Australians
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Throughout Australia, but especially NSW and Queensland, there are bureoning movements for land nationalisation, more militant trade unionism and socialism.
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On the 17th of September, Queen Victoria proclaimes the Commonweath of Autralia.
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Sir Henry Parkes, NSW premier and 'Father of Federation' says, 'The crimson. and the collapse of colonial governments in Victoria and New South Wales.