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=//CHINESE IMMAGRATION//= //by Hamish and Gabrielle.// Chinese traders were visiting the north coast of Australia in the 1750's or earlier. Small numbers came as labourers, convicts, or free settlers.When the word of the Australian gold rush reached China about 1853 the country had beeen suffering from years of war and famine.To raise money for the fair to Australia the Chinese would take a lone from a local trader promising to make regular repayments. His wife and children stayed behind to work for the trader.

The European miners did not like the chinese because the Europeans thought the chinese were heathens and idol worshipers. The chinese were also despised because they introduced opium smoking and forms of gambling. Some differences between the chinese and European miners were Chinese worked in groups, Chinese wore their hair in a piggy tail, they didn't speak the same language, the Chinese walked funny and the chinese ate their food usig chopsticks.

As well as stopping the chinese from comming into Australia all people that didn't speak English couldn't come to Australia this was called the White Australia Policy. Chinese discrimenation stated stopping in the 1950's. It got better for the chinese until 1973 when it finaly stopped.