Question | Answer |
(SECONDARY) "great city, as comfortable, as elegant, as | luxurious, as any place in London or Paris" (WESTON BATE) |
(SECONDARY) "the intensity of mining created | instant townships" (WESTON BATE) |
(SECONDARY) "almost entirely | destructive" (GEOFFREY BOLTON) - the gold rush's environmental affect |
(SECONDARY) "generally affluent, self-confident, progressive, and | at times even aggressive" (DON GARDEN) - Victorian society) |
(SECONDARY) "Weakened their ability to resist the new invaders and it | was weakened further by increasing illness" (A.G.L SHAW) |
(PRIMARY) "Debauchery and drink was | doing it's work" (ALFRED JOYCE) |
(PRIMARY) "Gentlemen in the country should protect their property and deal with | such useless savages on the spot" (FOSTER FYANS) |
(PRIMARY) "the land excellent and | very rich and light black soil" (JOHN BATMAN) |
(PRIMARY) "a land so inviting and | still without inhabitants" (MAJOR MITCHELL) |
(SECONDARY) "Stroke of a pen British | law replaced Aboriginal law" (HENRY REYNOLDS) |
(PRIMARY) ‘Unlock the Lands’ (Melbourne, 1855) | Popular ballad concerning the 'unlocking of land' for people to buy |
(PRIMARY) ‘Hurrah for Australia’ – (Charles Thatcher 1850s) | Popular ballad concerning the advances in Australia |
(PRIMARY) “There was no exclusiveness; they admitted | persons of all persuasions” – (Sir Redmond Barry) |
1835 – Batman’s treaty with | the Aboriginals |
1837 – Colonial and British government schemes for | assisted migration |
1845-1852 - Great Potato Blight across | Ireland and Scotland |
1837 – The Port Phillip | Aboriginal Protectorate set up. |
1838 - Faithfull Massacre | â 20 Aboriginal men attacked 18 stockman â 8 stockman killed. |
1839 – Four Protectors, led by Chief Protector George Augustus Robinson, were sent to different parts of the colony. Their task was to | make contact with Aboriginal groups and persuade them to abandon their country and way of life and settle on reserves. |
1841 – Gippsland Massacre | Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade killed between 60-150 Aboriginals. |
6,646,557 sheep | 16 years after contact (1851) – J. Morgan |
Population increased 7 fold in 10 years, | with 77,345 (1851) to 540,322 (1861) |
Melbourne Public Library | 1854 |
Secret ballots | 1856 |
1844 – Port Phillip petitions | Sydney for separation |
1858 - 40,000 Chinese migrated to Victoria. They made up | 1/10th of Victoria’s population. (Geoffrey Blainey) |
1837 – Melbourne named and the | street grid laid out by Robert Hoddle |
Chartism - reform movement of 1837–48, the principles of which were set out in a manifesto called The People's Charter and | Called for universal suffrage for men, equal electoral districts, voting by secret ballot, abolition of property qualifications for MPs, and annual general elections. |
Ballarat Reform League | Formed on 11 November 1854 at Ballarat as a protest against the regulation of the gold diggings |
George Macrae – settler - Mornington Peninsula 1845: Used native men as farm hands and native girls as domestic servants: | "We found the Aborigines about us docile...and highly intelligent" (PRIMARY) |
National Museum | 1854 |
First Australian Railway Founded | 1854 |
University of Melbourne | 1855 |
Botanical Gardens | 1856 |
Royal Melbourne Hospital | 1856 |
Telegraphic communications between Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney | 1858 |
Melbourne lit by gas | 1857 |
Universal male suffrage adopted | 1857 |
Eight hour day awarded | 1856 |
Chinese Immigration Act - levies 10 pounds each on Chinese immigrants | 1855 |
1842 - Native Police formed | 100 Aboriginal men served in the Police over 10 years |