A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... Chinese landed at Robe . By 1857 there were 23 623 Chinese on the gold - fields of Victoria , and a total of 25 424 in the colony at large . The aborigines of the south east who had always lived in constant dread of each other , and in ...
... Chinese landed at Robe . By 1857 there were 23 623 Chinese on the gold - fields of Victoria , and a total of 25 424 in the colony at large . The aborigines of the south east who had always lived in constant dread of each other , and in ...
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... Chinese , with a most unfavourable eye . As on the other fields the Europeans feared that they would soon be displaced by the Chinese in every area of profitable labour , as the Mongolian was better qualified than they to hold his own ...
... Chinese , with a most unfavourable eye . As on the other fields the Europeans feared that they would soon be displaced by the Chinese in every area of profitable labour , as the Mongolian was better qualified than they to hold his own ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. the minister for mines to rescind the anti - Chinese legislation to stop a general stampede of the Chinese from the field . The bourgeoisie of the north had come out in favour of coloured labour , just as the ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. the minister for mines to rescind the anti - Chinese legislation to stop a general stampede of the Chinese from the field . The bourgeoisie of the north had come out in favour of coloured labour , just as the ...
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ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
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