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Who should go?
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A popular 1852 English guide to the diggings aimed at prospective immigrants exhorted people of all classes to try their luck in Australia.

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Mackaness, George (ed.), Murray’s guide to the gold diggings: the Australian gold diggings: where they are, and how to get at them (1852), Australian Historical Monographs, Sydney, 1956. Details

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    Mackaness, George (ed.), Murray’s guide to the gold diggings: the Australian gold diggings: where they are, and how to get at them (1852), Australian Historical Monographs, Sydney, 1956. Details

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  • Mackaness, George (ed.), Murray’s guide to the gold diggings: the Australian gold diggings: where they are, and how to get at them (1852), Australian Historical Monographs, Sydney, 1956. Details

Transcript

Honest colonisers, until the gold discoveries occurred, were very cautious in recommending many of the educated, the clerk, the shopman, the skilled class, to emigrate to Australia; but now there is no longer any cause or room for hesitation among those who are fit for a life of barter, or strong in mind and body to bear the hardships inevitable in a rude, transitory state of society, hardships for which they will be well paid…”

Created: 17 March 2006, Last modified: 24 August 2006