Australian Gold Rush - Another Birth of the Australian Nation?

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History - Australia, Oceania, grade: 100/100 Pkt, , language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the ‘Gold Rush' in Australia at the middle of the 19th century, which nowadays, according the public opinion, belongs to the nation’s folklore, and pursue the question how the history of Australia has been influenced by this ‘Gold Rush’. Those effects of the gold fever are divided into three aspects which are intertwined with each other: population balance, law and an emerging national identity. It shall be shown how these three issues are caused by the discovery of gold and are mutually dependent.