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Analysis Of The Lambing Flat Riots

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The Lambing Flat Riots were a wave of anti-Chinese demonstrations that happened in the Australian goldfields in Central New South Wales during 1860-1861. Source A reveals that the largest group of non-Europeans to travel to and settle in Australia where the Chinese people as they wanted to search for gold. In New South Wales, 60 percent of miners were Chinese immigrants. Many miners, both European and Chinese, had moved to the goldfield of Lambing Flat when gold had been found there in 1860. This emphasises how dominant the Chinese population was in the Australian goldfields. It also shows how the rising Chinese population angered the Europeans. Source B is an artwork made in 1862 a year after the depicted scene happened. It shows a Chinese

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