Robe, 57–58
Ross, Captain Charles, 35
Ross, John, 156
S
sailing ships, 12–14
sandalwood, 119
schools, 81, 170
selectors, 47–76
self-government, 46
Selwyn, A.R.C., 131
‘sepoys’, 139
sheep, 175
slave trading, 115
South Australia copper mining, 129–130
German settlers, 133
the Goyder line, 133–135
land settlement plan, 134–135
Native Police force, 100
search for gold, 129–132
sport, 171–173
squatters effect of gold rushes on, 73
and selectors, 74–76
Stuart, John McDouall, 149–151
Stuckey, Samuel, 153–154
T
Tasmania naming of, 92–93
telegraph link to mainland, 95
telegraph, 95, 103, 155–160
telephones, 170
tents, 16
Thursday Island, 104
Todd, Charles, 156, 158
Tom brothers, 7–8
Torres Strait, 104
towns, 174
trade unions, 34
U
Uluru, 161
V
Van Diemen’s Land end of convict system, 93
renamed Tasmania, 92–93
Vern, Frederick, 36, 38
Victoria gold discoveries, 9
goldrush, 15–18
Native Police force, 97
population, 9
W
Warburton, Peter, 163
Welcome Stranger nugget, 25
Western Australia convicts brought to, 118–122
exploration, 125–128
telegraph link, 160
William Christie Gosse, 160–162
Wills, William John, 141–147, 146
women on the gold fields, 21–22
in the 1850s, 2–3, 11
in the 1870s, 168
woodchopping, 175
wool growing, 176
Y
Yandruwandha people, 146–148
Yiman people, 100–103
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Gold, graves and glory.
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