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Gold Rush reached southern china
By the 1850's it was said that in southern china word spread about the Australian Gold Rush, which made a big influx of increased Chinese people migrating to Australia. -
The Start of the Riots
A weak police presence was unable to prevent the anger inside of the Australian citizens and over the next 10 months six riots occurred known as the Lambing Flats Riots. -
How the Riots Started
The Lambing Flats Riots occurred in the most abusive area to the Chinese miners across all of Australia, it was caused by the accusation of Chinese people apparently wasting water while gold mining. -
Lambing Flats Renamed
After the Riots Lambing Flats was renamed "Young" -
The Big Riot
The biggest and most serious riot involved 2000 European diggers attacking the Chinese. The Chinese attempted to escape but approximately 250 were seriously injured near death and nearly all of the miners attacked lost their personal belongings.