Irish Immigration To Australia Gold Rush
. In those days there were tensions between Anglo-European settlers and the Chinese who migrated in great numbers from Guangdong Province. A lot of the Chinese immigrants were contracted to willing.Many of the immigrants whod originally come to try their hand at gold-digging chose to stay on and settle in the colonies ultimately quadrupling the population of Australia between 1851. Hundreds of thousands of new settlers descended on Australia during the 1850s. Before this time during the period known as the Great Famine only about 2 of Irish emigrants came to Australia about 23000.
Goldrush Immigration Push and Pull Factors.
Peter Lalor came to Australia from his home in Ireland in the 1840s to escape the Great Famine which was caused by a disease that affected potatoes. A lot of the Chinese immigrants were contracted to willing. The first discoveries of payable gold were at Ophir in New South Wales and then at Ballarat and Bendigo Creek in Victoria. Many of the immigrants whod originally come to try their hand at gold-digging chose to stay on and settle in the colonies ultimately quadrupling the population of Australia between 1851.
