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Government Surveyor James McBrien discovers traces of gold in the Fish River, east of Bathurst.
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The amount of gold being found is not good for the government beacuse they don't want the convicts leaving their jobs and homes.
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NSW Government offers rewards for payable gold.
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The Goverment introduced the Miner's Licence.
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The diggers rebel against their licence and burn them and had a fight against the government and started the Eureka Stockade.
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Gold was discovered in Tasmania.
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'Welcome Stranger' nugget discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates in Moliagul, Victoria. It is the world's largest nugget found to date.
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Gold was discovered at Spikes Gully,near the Berossa Valley in South Australia.
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The gold rushes caused large amounts of prospectors to travel to Australia from overseas resulting in mass international immigration. Australia's total population more than tripled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.
