Books
The key numbers to look at are:
Reference Books
Databases
Websites
The Australian Gold Rush - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal
Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal
An article about the gold rushes of the nineteenth century which had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a nation.
Sovereign Hill Education Center (Selection of related PDFS)
Notes for Primary Students
Gold! Gold! Properties and Uses (pdf)The Great Irish Famine -1846 (pdf)A Safe Passage (pdf)Golden Literature. Quotes from the gold fields (pdf)The Chinese (pdf)1850s School Life (pdf)
Notes for Secondary Students
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Ballarat's Indigenous Heritage (pdf)Law and Order on the Goldfields (pdf)The Discovery of Gold in Australia (pdf)Eureka (Word)Life on the Goldfields (pdf)Women on the Goldfields (pdf)Transport in the 1850s (pdf)Mining Technology (pdf)The Chinese in Ballarat (pdf)Primary Sources - Goldfields Quotes
