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Victoria has made a bipartisan apology to the descendants of Chinese gold miners for the discrimination they suffered during the Gold Rush. Victoria imposed a crippling tax of 10 pounds on Chinese ...

According to researcher Leigh McKinnon from the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo, Victoria, there were only around 140 Chinese people living in the state two years before the gold rush.

Contact with the new settlers brought about serious disruptions to the native way of life. The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes.

But the industry on which the village depends is also blamed for its demise. A gold rush, with prices more than tripling in the past decade, has seen an increase in mechanical extraction of the ...