Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told ... Chinese gold-diggers and the First Nations people in the gold-mining town, Ballarat, in Victoria ...

Unearth extraordinary stories of people who came to this country to try – but mostly fail – to make their fortune finding gold. What did people eat, wear, do for fun, sing, read, paint and cry ...

What were conditions like on the gold-farms and fields? How did the rush impact Australia’s First Nations People? And in what ways did it shape the country? This is a Short History Of The ...