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Records showing when the very first Chinese came to Australia are not easily accessible. However, within just a few years of the British settling in Australia, there were Chinese arriving as indentured labourers, convicts and free settlers.

Chinese were visiting Australia before the Europeans arrived, as early as the 1750s, visiting the northern coasts for delicacies such as trepang.

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