The Chinese were the largest amount of foreign people to come to Australia. During the gold rush Australia was made up of about 4000 Chinese miners. Most of the Chinese miners were made up of men, there were only a few women at the time.
The Victorian government were worried about how many Chinese were arriving and tried to stop them. The captain of a boat arriving in Melbourne had to pay the Government 10 pounds in tax for every Chinese on board. The captain avoided that by landing in South Australia that had no gold taxes. The Chinese diggers walked hundreds of miles across the country to the Victorian goldfields.
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