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Afghan cameleers
The Afghan cameleers were brought to South Australia in 1838, to assist in the early exploration of the interior of the country. Camels played an essential role in navigating through the harsh desert terrain that horses would not survive in. In the late 1890s, the goldfields in Western Australia were booming. -
Chinese Miners
in the he 1850s a gold rush attracted many Chinese Miners to Australian.In 1861 there were more than 24,000 Chinese immigrants on the Victorian goldfields of Ararat, Ballarat, Beechworth, Bendigo, Castlemaine and Maryborough. -
Japanese pearl divers
In the summer of 1888–89 Broome, a recently founded town in the far north-west of Western Australia, became the centre of the Japanese colony's pearling industry.The pearling industry used divers to collect naturally occurring pearls and pearl shells, from which decorative mother of pearls was made from the bottom of the sea.Japanese people are really good at holding there breath that is why they came to Australia.