Contribution of Chinese settlers to Australia. Part 1 : A general history

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CONTRIBUTION OF CHINESE SETTLERS TO AUSTRALIA  

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GENERAL HISTORY  

Australia today is one of the most cosmopolitan countries in  

the world. Following the influx of J.l million people from  

100 different countries and locations around the world in the  

past 23 years Australia today is the newest nation on earth.  

This is because shortly half the population will be under 23  

years of age and one Australian in three is product one way  

or another of post-war migration.  

So it is fitting and appropriate that the newest people in  

the world, the Australians of the 1970®5, should embrace in  

the Family of the Nation members of one of the oldest people  

in the world, the Chinese.  

China indeed is one of the oldest homes of mankind with  

archaeological evidence pointing to 400,000 years ago, and  

Chinese civilization itself dating back more than 3,700 years.  

How great the contrast when we come to Australia to which our  

first Aboriginal people came 40,000 years ago and the present  

nation had its genesis less than two centuries ago.  

wanted to trace the links between Australia and China.  

The earliest links are shrouded in the mists of time. Xtl  

the many centuries of Chinese history it has been postulated  

that wandering junks from China established contact with the  

great southland that has become Australia.  

study of cartography indicates that the existence of  

Australia was recognised long before our records tell of  

contact and settlement.  

Perhaps in China®s pigeon holes of history there lies the  

story of the first contact by outsiders with the last continent.  

believe there is room for research to establish once and  

for all whether there was Chinese Captain Cook.  

But we do know that almost from the beginning there were  

Chinese who had found their way to the infant colony  

established in 1?88.  

Within 30 years of our foundation, Chinese settlers were  

being brought to Australia to work as shepherds on the  

great sheepruns each as big as European kingdom.  

These first Chinese settlers came from Amoy in the Hokkien  

speech area of Fukien province. An entire shipload arrived  

from Amoy in 1848 and others followed at regular intervals.  

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