The Chinese question

With the commencement of the Queensland gold-rushes in the 1860s, large numbers of Chinese miners and businesses arrived, and competition with Europeans led to rising tensions.

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Map of the world showing the warm countries in which the skin of human beings gradually becomes brown, 1903

Australia
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1 January 1903
30 August 2010
30 August 2010

Location

Australia
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30 August 2010
Melbourne
E.W. Cole Book Arcade
Whiteness in the tropics

Map of the world showing the warm countries in which the skin of human beings gradually becomes brown, and the hot countries in which it gradually becomes black, 1903. E.W.

Whiteness in the tropics

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two visions of a white tropical Queensland vied for ascendancy. One was based on the principle of white dominance.

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