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The Australian frontier wars were a series of conflicts that were fought between Indigenous Australians and British settlers that lasted 146 years. Relevance: All Australians should know about the event to understand history between the British settlers and the Indigenous Australians. Impact: The Aboriginal population was affected due to disease, infertility, loss of hunting grounds and starvation. Consequence: Approximately 20000 Indigenous Australians and 2500 Europeans that died.
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Brought a large number of Australian + overseas workers 'rush' to Australia to find gold in different parts of the country.
Relevance: All Australians should know about this event as it has shaped the Australian economy to what it is today.
Impact: Over 370,000 migrants arrived in Australia. Economy boomed. Population tripled: 430,000 (1851) to 1.7million (1871).
Consequence: Start of multiculturalism. In 1861, 3.3% of the population were Chinese immigrants who migrated for the gold rush. -
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Relevance: The Eureka Stockade was a rebellion started by the gold miners ('diggers') in Ballarat, Victoria against the government to challenge licence policies and mining laws. Birth of democracy.
Impact: Mass public support for the captured rebels in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856.
Consequence: The Eureka Stockade resulted in 27 deaths (22 rebel diggers, and five officials) -
By 1860, after 70 years of European farming settlement, there were 1.2 million acres (or 480,000 hectares) under crop and livestock numbers had increased to 25 million head.
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