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Most probablly because of Edward Hammond Hargrave who claimed to find gold in Australia. That's how the gold rush started which increased Australia's population by more than double the amount of people before the gold rush.

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The main boost to Australia's population was the goldrush of the 1850s.

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What happened is that in 1851 Australia's industrial's , where growing fast which made them have a big population

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