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The British Immigrants came in 1788 because the jails in England were getting full. They started shipping the convicts to America but there king was getting angry so they told them to stop shipping them over. So they started shipping them to Van Diemans Land.
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The Greeks came to Australia and the first person to find gold was a Greek man.That was what started the Gold Rush. The Greek also came as the first colony.
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They moved on to Western Australia, The Barossa Valley, The Riverena and South East Queensland where they found the regions suitable for wheat and dairy farming
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Chinese Immigrants came in the 1850's to Colonial Australia but were not accepted in the country because of their raise and ansestors. They came for the well known Gold Rush.
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The Spanish arrived to Australia because of the Victorian Gold Rush. The first Spanish Resturaunt was opened in Melbourne in 1860. By 1871, 137 Spaniards lived in Victoria and 80% of them were Men
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The Italian Immigrants came to Victoria, Australia because of the Gold Rush but when the gold started to run out they moved onto other places in Australia other than Victoria.
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The Afghans mainly came from the arid hills and plains of Baluchistan, Afghanistan and the North-West of British India.
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The Pacific Islanders (Kanakers) came because they heard about the Gold Rush, but when they arrived everyone else wanted them as Sugar Cane Farmers, which apparently they were very good at.
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The french came and started Wine Factories.
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The Irish immigrataed to Victoria in vast numbers. They wetre the largest immigrant group after the British immigrants from 1854 to World War 1.
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In 1891 there was The Great Depression because the aconomy went flat and all the jobs went flat. It even lasted for more than a decade.
