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Free settlement in Western Australia to do with convicts in the 1850s?
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The first group of convicts to populate Fremantle, Western Australia, arrived on 1 June 1850. For the first fifteen years of the colony of Swan River, Western Australia, the people were generally opposed to accepting convicts, although the idea was occasionally debated, especially by those who wanted to employ convict labour for building projects. Serious lobbying for Western Australia to become a penal colony began in 1845 when the York Agricultural Society petitioned the Legislative Council to bring convicts out from England on the grounds that the colony's economy was on the brink of collapse due to an extreme shortage of labour. Whilst later examination of the circumstances proves that there was no such shortage of labour in the colony, the petition found its way to the British Colonial Office, which in turn agreed to send out a small number of convicts to Swan River. Following the transportation of the first convicts to WA, between 1850 and 1868, 9721 convicts were transported to Western Australia.
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What year did the first Chinese come to Australia?
The very first Chinese settler to Australia, Mak Sai Ying, arrived in 1818, and small numbers of Chinese trickled into Australia in the ensuing years. The first large group of Chinese migrants came to Western Australia in 1847, followed by another large group of 121 Chinese to New South Wales in October 1848. These groups were in response to a labour shortage. The labour shortage in NSW followed the cessation of transportation of convicts to the colony, while on the other side of Australia, the Western Australia colony wanted convicts to address their labour shortage. Many there were opposed to convict labour, so the first option was to try and use cheap Chinese labour. Without doubt, the most significant wave of Chinese migrants arrived during the 1850s as a result of the gold rushes.
When did the first group of Chinese migrants come to Australia?
The first Chinese settler to Australia, Mak Sai Ying, arrived in 1818, and small numbers of Chinese trickled into Australia in the ensuing years. The first large group of Chinese migrants came to Western Australia in 1847, followed by another large group of 121 Chinese to New South Wales in October 1848. These groups were in response to a labour shortage. The labour shortage in NSW followed the cessation of transportation of convicts to the colony, while on the other side of Australia, the Western Australia colony wanted convicts to address their labour shortage. Many there were opposed to convict labour, so the first option was to try and use cheap Chinese labour. Without doubt, the most significant wave of Chinese migrants arrived during the 1850s as a result of the gold rushes.
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