Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Sunday, November 2, 2008

the chinese wer treated badley on the gold fields...

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Law and order (The Eureka Stockade) Part 5

Once the minners started there was a battle against the government soulders and the minners.
In the end , hundreds were injured and alot killed. But in the end the minners got their rights.

PENNY

Law and order (The Eureka Stockade) Part 4

A couple of days after the government made them pay 30 shillingsfor the licence, three women and one child decided to make a flag to represent them. Then later they used that flag to protest against the Victorian government.

PENNY

Law and order (The Eureka Stockade) Part 3

At Bakery Hill near the Ballarat gold feilds, the Victorian government made them pat 30 shillings ($ 3.70 ) for a minners licence (MINNERS RIGHT).

PENNY

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Bushrangers

The last bushranger was Jimmy Governer.He was born in 1875.During his early twenties he earned his job as a police tracker. In 1898 he married a 16 year old girl called Ethel Page.

In 1900 Jimmy worked for a man called Jhon Mawbey.One day Mrs Mawbey and her two friends taunted Ethel by calling her scum just for marrying a black fellow.When Jimmy found out he went up to the house for an apology .He got more abuse .He got called a "Pooh,you black rubbish you want shooting for marrying white woman."Jimmy attacked them with a heavy bat and an axe.

One of the seven children ran off. Mrs Mawbey and her other friends died and three of the children died and the rest were seriously injured.

Jimmy and his two friends were declared bushrangers and they started off in New South Wales.They committed over 80 crimes in a couple of months.It also includes two murders of two men a women and her baby.

By October they were known to be out laws and after the month one of his friends died and jimmy and Jimmy and his other friend got captured.

Jimmy was hung on 18 January 1901.In the end all of the bushrangers were dead and for the first time Australia was a nation

Zoe

THE TIME

The gold rush started in the 1800s

Law And Order (The Eureka Stockade Part 2)

As people from other countreys came people started to take the gold for themselves. (GREEDY PEOPLE). So then they made a miners licence, so the diggers could dig 4 gold. But there were the odd people who did not have a miners licence so they were put in prison, or they got killed by the Australian police.

PENNY

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Chinese

Thousonds of chinese miners came to australia but they had to pay 10 pounds to get to the, Victorian harbor. Many worked for one to three years and then whent bak to china. In 1860 there was around 40 thousond to 50 thousond people in Australia...





Jo

Women & Children on the goldfields

Many women and children came to the goldfields after their husband/father had found enough gold to build more comfortable huts. Often they would keep a few hens and goats so the children would have better food. Also Many dancers and actresssers went to the goldfields to entertain the diggers. The women did most of the cooking and washing. By December 1852 there were about 12000 children on the Victorian Goldfields.

The children would help their parents by carrying wood, caring for the horses and looked after their tent. Older children were expectd to to work as hard as the adults.

Some children were sent to school on the goldfields. the lessons were held in a tent. The childrens standerd of education wasn't high.

Lizzie
Many children went to the goldfields with their parents and by December 1852 there were allmost 12000 chirdren on the goldfields.







Jo

Games And Entertainment On The Goldfields

  • On the goldfields, the gold miners play games so they wont get bored on the break of their job
  • Well there are sports such as soccer and there’s hunting. For hunting they hunt Kangaroos because they could use it to get some food.
  • The miners are also play some board games like chess sets and an Indian game called carom, Jenga and an African board game called Mancala.
    The miners also gamble money, they play it like the Chinese.

Omar

Bushranger (Martin Cash)

Martin Cash was born in Wexford, Ireland. He was born in 1808. His first crime was attempting to murder a man in 1827 he went to jail for seven years for doing this. When he got out of jail he was employed to be a stockman in The Yarra valley area.
In 1837 He moved to Tasmania and stole cattle, he was charged and arrested. He kept getting in trouble and in 1840 he went to a gaol with Port Arthur. At the place they believed that it was escape free. 2 years later in 1842 he tried to escape he succeeded.
When he got out he kept robbing houses and causing a lot of trouble for 20 more months. In 1843 he wounded Sir Constable Peter Winstanley. A couple months later he was doing criminal sessions. He was found guilty. They were sentenced to hang on the 14th of September. An hour before the execution they were reprieved. Both men got sent to Norfolk Island.
At Norfolk Island he became a free man. In 1852 he was considered trusty. Then in 1854 he married a lady named Mary Bennet. Then that year he became a constable.
In 1853 He granted a ticket to Tasmania. At Tasmania he got an appointment as an overseer en charge of the government’s domain.
In 1856 he was pardoned to a free pardon man.

In 1877 He got very, very sick and passed away.


Done by Casey

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

LAW AND ORDER (THE EUREKA STOCKADE PART 1)

In 1854, lots of miners all over the world came to Australia to dig for gold, but then they found out they had no rights.

PENNY
Edward kelly (Ned). Was born in beverige Victoria 1855 he was the son of poor irish settlers and had a brother named Daniel (Dan).

Bushrangers/Frank Gardiner

In the early days of Australias history bushrangers roamed the country side. They made a living by stealing horses and robbing banks and stores. Many were escaped convicts others were just young men looking for adventure and freedom.



The person that i chose to do is Frank Gardiner (Francis Christie) Frank Gardiner was one of the few bushrangers who didnt end up dying in prison or being shot or hanged. He was born in 1830 he began his life of crime by stealing horses when he was twenty,this made him get a five year jail sentence. After that he got caught again and got sent to jail for seven years but he was realeased after three.He then became a butcher and it became to know that the meat that he was selling came from stock that had been stolen.

Gardiner went to Queensland were he lived under another name and brought a shop.He was tracked down and arressted two years later. In 1864 he was sentenced to thirty-two years in jail.He spen the rest of his life in Sanfrancisco in America.

Some of his nicknames were:
Jones,Prince of the tobymen and King of the road

By Abbey
In 1860 around 7000 chinese people arrived in new south wales to work on the gold feilds. The chinese had to pay 10 pounds to go to the Victorian port. If any chinese people were seen near the Eurepean goldfeilds the chinese people would be shot.









Jo

childrens activities cont.

The school was in a tent which could seat up tpo a hundred children

Theachers lived on the goldfields as well. If the children movede the teachers ahad to follow.If a goldfield was very well established, more permanent schools wwere set up.

eureka stockade ,George Black

It took place in Ballarat in 1854 with the miners fighting against the Governor Hotham for the rights to vote and mine under better conditions. The leader of the Eureka Stockade was Peter Lalor. the publisher and writer of the diggers advocate was George Black. He was was the secutary to Humphry in the diggers Reform leauge he also delivered the partiton to Govener Hotham.




by clint @ pgc 600
gi tacticals

Chinese on the Goldfields

The Chinese were treated very unfairly compared to the Europeans. One example is that the Chinese had to pay tax when they landed in Victoria while the Europeans didn't. The Victorian government was worried about too many Chinese flooding into the goldfields and sending most of the gold back to China. The Chinese avoided this tax by landing in Port Adelaide and then walk across the border to Victoria.

Near gold mines there were often notices saying '' Any Chinesemen found past this point will be shot''. The Europeans often burnt Chinese miner's tents and stole all the gold that the Chinese had found.

At the end of the gold rush some Chinese miners returned to China but some remained in Australia


Tianyi

Soccer on the gold fields

There were five clubs of the GFL and these are the teams :
Kalgoorlie City Football Club (Kangas) Where the The original team in the GFL
Boulder City Football Club (Tigers)
Railways Football Club (Panthers) The Panthers are the second most successful club in GFL history
Mines Football Club The most successful side in the GFL.
Kambalda Football Club (Eagles) is the oldest club in the league .


by Walter





Monday, October 20, 2008

Childrens Activities

Children spent most of their childhood helping their parents searching for gold. Otherwise they carried wood, looked after the tent or hut, cared for HORSES or fossicked among the left-over gravel or sand.

Some children were sent to school , but the education standard was not very high.

I'll be back 3with more info.

Imogen

Bushrangers


The word bushrangers came from the Australian language in the 19th century. The first meaning for the word bushranger was people who attacked peole on the road or in the bush.


More than 2000 bushrangers were belived to have romed the Australian countryside, beggining with the convicts bolters and drawing to a close after Ned Kellys last stand at Glenrowen.


Bushrangers were origanally used to discribe predatory escaped convicts fleeting from the Australian penal colonies. Most of hem stole horses as thier first crime.
The first bushranger was said to be Jhon "Black" Ceaser.
PENNY

Women & Children

WOMEN:



Most people on the goldfields were men as lots of people did not belive that women should work there. Although, some women went to the goldfields with thier husbands, brothers or friends.



Women still worked as hard as men, they had different jobs. The women cooked, washed, ironed, made bread, butter, jam, soap & clothes for the family, and some even sang and danced for the men whilst they were working!



CHILDREN:



Lots of parents were not able to home school children either because they hadn't had very good schooling themselfs, or that they had come from the other side of the world and did not speak a lot of english. Children often had to move schools due to parents moving to different goldfields. School fees were very small, only 10c per child.



The teachers at schools were often young & untrained, one teacher at a school near Orange was only 14!!



AMY

Games and Entertainment on the Goldfields

On the goldfields miners worked very hard. They needed something to relax them and keep them happy when not mining gold. They invented many games and entertainment which kept them occupied on the goldfields. Some of these were:
  • They had a boxing ring for boxing
  • Grog Tents which the miners got their beer from
  • They had dancing and music all the time
  • At night they would fire weopons for no reason just to have fun

They also had a few sports. Not the sports we have today. They would make them up. They played: Kangaroo Shooting and Possum Hunting. Those two were very common. They also had other events like dancing.

Overall life was very difficult for the miners and they all loved a good game.

Tim

Entertainment on the goldfields!!!!

On the goldfields, the miners played games to relieve the tension from trying to find their fortune.

  • Some of the time they played sport. The sports weren't like the sports that you played today eg: tennis or soccer. The sport were hunting. The miners would hunt kangaroos or possums.
  • They would also storytell and play music. While the music played they would also dance to it. Sometimes they had balls or a concert. This was mostly an excuse for dressing up and having a time to relax.
  • If not dancing they could read books.
  • When miners struck gold they would have a leisurely activity called "Letting off Steam". This would be only done in the night.

Even with all these fun and leisurely activities, life on the goldfields was tough.

Long

LAW AND ORDER


The goldfields were prone to burglary and other crimes during the time of the gold rush. The reason for this was because there were a small amount of police at first, there were large amounts of gold and many bushrangers, ex-convicts and burglars rushed to the goldfields.
The government had to combat this problem. But nearly all the police had rushed to the goldfields to make their fortunes. The government beat this problem by raising the wages by half. The only fault in this solution was many inexperienced men and criminals joined the force. These men took bribes or anything to get them money; they also were completely ruthless and brutal. Diggers were chained to trees or anything if they could not pay fines.

The most controversial law on the goldfields was the miner’s license; this was where miners had to pay for the right to mine. Police always looked for people without licenses because they gained part of the fine. Diggers had to pay a huge fine if they got caught without a license. The license had to be carried everywhere so it was often ruined. To buy the license they had to go for miles to the post office and wait in line for hours.

Over all life was very hard for the miners.
LBJ (Hugh)

Women and Children

Womens work was washing, ironing, cooking(thgh fresh fruit and veggies were rare and expensive)making bread, jam and clothes. The living conditions were cramped(they lived in tents) and primitive toilets were health hazards.

Their wasn't any medical assistance when women were giving birth, only the help of other women and midwives. Diseases such as whooping cough, measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever were easily spread.

Over one quarter of deaths in ballarat were children under five. parents moved alot looking for better patches of gold, so the children had a disrupted education. Most children had to help with the finding of gold. Many parents were unable to educate children.

Imogen

Mary Ann Bugg (Bushranger)

EARLY LIFE :
She was born near Stroud in New South Whales (November 11, 1867). Her father was a shererd named James Brigg who soon after changed his name to Bugg.

DURING HER LIFE :
In June 1, at the age of just 14, she got married to a sheperd named Edmund Baker. She got the name Mrs. Shana Ann Shepard after she got married.

DEATH :
On the 11 November 1887, Mary Ann Bugg died of pnenmonia west of Muswellbrook.

PENNY

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The task

Research one of the following topics:
  • Chinese on the gold fields
  • Women and children on the gold fields
  • Bush Rangers
  • Law, order and punishment
  • Entertainment and games

Blog about the information you find. Also post a comment in reply to your classmates blog.