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Chinese Miners
In the early 1850s over 7000 chinese miners came to Australia because they heard about all of the gold panning happening there. This sparked an influx in chinese migration to Australia. This is now known as the gold rush. -
Refugees from East Timor arrive at Darwin Australia
Lots of workers and families from East Timor came to Darwin Australia for their safety due to threat during the independence voting chrisis. -
Afghan cameleers
Around the late 1830s numerous Afghans sought buisness oppurtunities in the goldfields. Most of the horse travellers had to use camels beacuse horses could not survive in the heat they neecd t