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AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION AND

RACIAL ISSUES 1900

 Australia's population inthe 1900 was mostlypeople from the

British 17 percent of them background.

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Population

This is a graph to showall the multiculturalpeople in Australia in

the 1900 times.

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Chinese ColonyThe Chinese were the first

 Asian background to livein Australia,the Chinesestarted to populatearound the 1800s.Inthe1850s they started toincrease because theBritish had ordered morepeople from China towork as cheap labourersto work in the gold minesand farms. Then theChines started tosteal,kill decided tobreak the houses and

take all the money.

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Quong Tart

 A man named Quong Tart wasfrom Asia working in themines. At the age of nine heworked as an interpreter for a rich European family onthe mining fields. Then hehad become rich and wasgiven a property to maintainby taking care of 200Europeans and Chinese. In1871 he became a citizen to

 Australia. Then opening upa business in trade with Teaand Silk with the help of theN.S.W Premier.

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 Asian Fame

 Australia started to increasewith Asians including theJapanese. The Japanesewere used for diving in thewaters searching for pearlsin the waters of australia .Work started to decreasefor the Europeans andBritish because of theJapanese and other Asianswere taking all the work.

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Kanakas

In the 1800s people from thepacific also known as thepacific islanders werenamed the Kanakas. Theyhad migrated to Australia towork as cheap labour toplant Sugar canes in partsof Queensland. This weirdterm Kanakas means manin Hawaiian.

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 About Kanakas

● The Kanakas or also knownas Pacific Islanders wereforced to come to Australiathey were kidnapped fromtheir houses and wereforced to work in Australiamainly Queensland. Theyhad to sign a three year contract to work in

 Australia,after that contractis over they were used asslaves to help withplantation

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The Slavery is over 

● Finally in 1890 the slaveryof the Kanakas was over and the Blackbirding hadstopped. This was nowrestricted in Queensland.

 Around 1898 there weremore than 8000 Kanakas inQueensland.

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The end

● The Queens landerswanted to continue thisslavery but somebodyhad to stop it. They still

wanted to use them towork in thecanefeilds,but the other colonies wanted to stopit because there wereissues about only Australia being white

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 About Australia

●  Australia was run by theBritish and the Europeansaround the 1900s. TheBritish had settled in to

 Australia and wereconvicts they had comefrom the first fleet, alsothey kicked out the

 Aboriginals and took their 

land which is now knownas Australia.