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Shaping Australia: Gold Rush (PB)
Author: Jordan Thomas
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| Retail Price: | $19.95 |
| Betabooks Price | $4.95 |
ISBN: 9780864154859
Format: Paperback
Published: September 2005
Published By: Watts Publishing
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Published: September 2005
Published By: Watts Publishing
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Gold was discovered in Australia before the 1850s, but the colonial governors suppressed news of the finds. At the time a large number of the population were British convicts who had been transported to New South Wales, Victoria, Van Diemen's Land, Queensland and Western Australia for their crimes. It was widely believed there would be a convict revolt if word of the potential fortunes to be made from mining gold leaked out.