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The fourth book in the Chinese Australians series shines a light on one of the most difficult chapters in Australia's gold rush history. While thousands of Chinese people travelled to the goldfields with dreams of fortune and a better life, they were often met with hostility, suspicion, and resentment. This book explores why anti-Chinese feeling grew so strong, leading to harsh laws, open discrimination, and even violent riots. Students will learn about the Buckland Valley Riot and the notorious Lambing Flat Riot, where anger boiled over and mobs drove Chinese miners from the goldfields. The story of the ""Roll-Up"" banner and the treatment of the rioters reveals much about the attitudes of the time. Through these events, readers will discover how cultural differences, competition for gold, and fear of change fuelled prejudice. The book also asks an important question: What can we learn from this history today? Written for upper primary and lower secondary students, this engaging and accessible text brings history to life while encouraging reflection on fairness, tolerance, and the value of diversity.

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Marji Hill runs her art career alongside her career as an author. She is a highly respected international author as well as a seasoned business executive, researcher and coach.Marji is passionate about promoting understanding between Australia's First Nationspeople and other Australians. The spirit of reconciliation was fostered in all her writings ever since she was a Research Fellow in Education at the AustralianInstitute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ( in Canberra.From 2008 to 2011, Marji was Deputy Chairperson of the Mosman Branch of Reconciliation Australia in Sydney. Following her Research Fellowship at AIATSIS in 1976 Marji, together with her late partner, Alex Barlow, produced more than seventy (80) books on all aspects of the First Nations people including the critical, annotated bibliography Black Australia.In 1989 she was the Project Coordinator and one of the researchers and writers of Australian Aboriginal Culture the official Australian Government publication on First Nations people.In 1988 Six Australian Battlefields was published by Angus and Robertson. A decade later it was re-published by Allen & Unwin as a paperback edition. Her nine-volume encyclopaedia, Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Australia's Aboriginal Peoples was published in 2000 and in 2009 she published The Apology: Saying Sorry To The Stolen Generations.Marji's more recent publications extend to self-improvementand self-help with books like Staying Young Growing Old and Inspired by Country a self-help book about painting with gouache.

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