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Australian Identities, Newspaper Article

National Identities are famous through out all parts of the world, each identity makes the country easier to classify, but to me the Australian identity is the most interesting of all, from the 1830’s to the new generation Australia has accomplished so much.
Imagine in the 1930’s a life where you would wake up every morning hoping to find the gold that is hidden beneath the dirt. There is no videogames, television and electrical appliances. The gold rush was spoken of mouth to mouth about how the finest gold was found in Australia, and before they knew it immigrants from Europe and Asia where coming down to look for gold. The Australian miners were mighty angry because the immigrants decreased their average earnings. The miners didn’t like the Chinese for their looks, smell and greed for gold but they had to cope with it. As 1855 was approaching immigration started to get even worse and the Australian states tried to put on immigration restrictions so that Asians didn’t en...

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