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The South Australian (1844–1851), previously Southern Australian; South Australian Chronicle (July 1858 – 1955) published weekly under various similar titles by The Advertiser; South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (1837–1931) South Australian Register; Southern Australian (1838–1844) became The South Australian
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Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] granted representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. These colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments. 1 October: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, was founded. 1851: 1 July
Download as PDF; Printable version ... from 76,000 in 1851 to 540,000 in 1861. Australia's total population more than ... on the gold standard, so was Australia.
There were 20,000 Chinese miners on the Victorian goldfields by 1855 and 13,000 on the New South Wales diggings. There was a widespread belief that they represented a danger to white Australian living standards and morality, and colonial governments responded by imposing a range of taxes, charges and restrictions on Chinese migrants and residents.
The Victorian-goldfields to Adelaide route was notable for the distance and amount of gold carried, almost a quarter of all gold, 1,520,578 ounces (43,110 kg), transported within Victoria during the gold rush (1851-1865). [8] The Gold Escort route started in the Bendigo area and then went west across the Pyrenees to the small settlement of Horsham.
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The Australian Government has provided substantial funding for the upgrading of roads since the 1920s, but it has not regularly funded investment in railways except for its own railway, the Commonwealth Railways, which was established in 1911 to build the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta, and to take ...