how did the gold rushes change australia?
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In 1851 Hargraves discovered gold in a water hole near Bathurst.\nThis discovery marked the beginning of the Australian gold rushes and a radical change in the economic and social fabric of the nation.\nHargraves could never have dreamt how significant his discovery would be. New South Wales yielded 26.4 tonnes (850,000 ounces) of gold in 1852. This was a mere drop in the ocean compared to the yield from neighbouring Victoria when they joined the rush for gold. \n\nThe Victorian authorities, eager to prevent its population from joining the gold frenzy in NSW, offered a reward of £200 for any gold found within 200 miles of Melbourne. In 1851, six months after the New South Wales find, gold was discovered at Ballarat, and a short time later at Bendigo Creek. \n In 1852 alone, 370,000 immigrants arrived in Australia and the economy of the nation boomed. \n\nThe 'rush' was well and truly on. Victoria contributed more than one third of the world's gold output in the 1850s and in just two years the State's population had grown from 77,000 to 540,000! \n\nThe number of new arrivals to Australia was greater than the number of convicts who had landed here in the previous seventy years. The total population trebled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.\n\nThe gold bullion that was shipped to London each year brought a huge flow of imports. The goldfield towns also sparked a huge boost in business investment and stimulated the market for local produce. The economy was expanding and thriving.
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The Bendigo goldfields in Victoria, Australia were, until recently, the richest goldfields in Australia.  Over it's 150-year history, a total of just under 1 cubic metre of pure gold was extracted from the ground in the area.
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Fact: During the early days of the gold rush many easterners came out west looking for gold. Many stopped in Nevada not wanting to make the trip of the Sierras. They mined and mined looking for gold nuggets and all they found were clumps of black metal that they kept throwing out as waste. The black metal was actually pure silver in it's rough, unpolished form and no one realized!\n\nFact: California is called "The Golden State" because of the gold rush of 1949\n\nFact: Pyrite or "Fool's Gold" is often mistaken for gold nuggets but it has little value of it's own.
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Australia or Japan \ntime for change
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Probably the same as it is now.  \n\nI have a late 1980s video tape of James Burke, the popular British science presenter, showing how by the late 1990s Indonesia would have grown so hot due to "global warming" that unstoppable numbers of migrants would be forced to flood the beaches of northern Australia.\n\nIt never happened.  Now, yet another ten years after, it still hasn't happened, and there's no perceptible change in the climate of Indonesia (alleged holes in Arctic polar ice notwithstanding).  \n\nIt would mean easy money for me to take any bets you care to offer that in five years Australia's climate will be much the same as today.
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Actually, I found out that it was later.  You learn something new everyday.\n\n "In 1975 all restrictions on the right of American citizens to own gold were abolished."
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In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Britain. The expedition's discoveries provided impetus for the establishment of a penal colony there following the loss of the American colonies that had previously filled that role.\n \nHey Mate, Want more info? Then Click>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#History
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"The noun is attested from c.1380; sense of "mass migration of people" (especially to a gold field) is from 1848, Amer.Eng. Meaning "surge of pleasure" is from 1960s. Rush hour first recorded 1890."\n\nFrom the above etymological definition it looks like it is a "mass of migrating people surging with pleasure" that they can go home?!  Sounds good to me!
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Currently, it is AU$90.3865. You can do these conversions yourself at the site listed below. It's got a lot of great features too! I hope this helps! Take care.
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World War 1 is a big one.  Australia became  a federation (1901), Russian revolution.
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There is somewhat of a relationship.  If interest rates rise dramatically as they did in the early 80s, people will tend to invest their money in interest bearing instruments rather than gold and the price of gold will fall.  When interest rates are very low as they currently are, gold becomes a much more attractive investment relative to interest bearing investments and the price of gold tends to increase.
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it changed in the beginning.
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I think Cockney (or at least the 18th century version of it) was the original basis for the Australian accent. It broadened and evolved over time due to the great "melting pot" of regional and class-distinct accents. Constant communication via the ports meant the accent was standardised (unlike, say, England or America where there are many variations in accents). It's also just been subject to natural changes in pronunciation. Listen to Australians speaking naturally on, say, TV footage from 30 years ago and even then it sounds quite different from now.
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Gold is limited in this country.  So the price is control.   They have got this all down to a science if the price goes down for gold they import or mine less of it.   So I believe the price of gold will reach a limited range and go up and down between that.   No, constant drop or constant gain.
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Gold is much heavier than fools gold.
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It was a British Military-run penal colony that offered British citizens the opportunity to cultivate and settle the land. Tasmania was the "alkatraz" for the worst of AU's criminals.
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