Australia in the middle of a gold rush — AusFigures public-text record

PUBLIC-TEXT RECORD / ARCHIVE

Australia in the middle of a gold rush

YEAR
2010
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
AUSFIGURESPUBLIC-TEXT ARCHIVEARCHIVE INDEX
PUBLIC-TEXT RECORD

Australia in the middle of a gold rush

immigrants. People came from the mother country, if you like, here. They came for a better life and they were prepared to endure almost anything to get it. And this is where they lived. They lived in their humble little buildings and in their tents and in their shacks until they could afford someth…

Record ID
4,253
Year
2,010
Source
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Index status
Archive detail (not indexed)

This reviewed public record supports the curated archive pages but intentionally remains outside the search sitemap.

Record context

Record ID
4253
Source
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Publication
ABC
Published
2010-03-05
Narrative type
Ghost Legends
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Digital Era
Location
Braidwood, NSW (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
Source voice
Abc Public Search Gap Candidate
Publicness
Public Media Page

Source-grounded excerpt

immigrants. People came from the mother country, if you like, here. They came for a better life and they were prepared to endure almost anything to get it. And this is where they lived. They lived in their humble little buildings and in their tents and in their shacks until they could afford something better. There were no kings and queens around here. CHRIS KIMBALL, REPORTER: Tucked into the hills above Bredbo between Canberra and Cooma, preserved by isolation and a brutal environment, sits a pair of gold mining ghost towns. They're living museums of mining history and life as a pioneer prospector. BARRY MCGOWAN: You could almost describe gold as the Tattslotto of the 1890s, or of the 19th Century. This was your one chance, your one chance to really strike it rich. CHRIS KIMBALL: Barry McGowan has tracked many stories of those who made their fortunes or failed. An author and mining hist

The excerpt is presented as public-source context. Terminology belongs to the cited source and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.

Browse this record

Narrative type: Ghost LegendsEncyclopedia profile: GhostSource: Australian Broadcasting CorporationOpen original public source

Related public records

  1. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17631861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountsled her to suspect the reality of the white man's relationship to her family ; for she actually instigated her husband to murder Darumboy in revenge for the loss of her dog I This, it seems, the old man was not indispos…
  2. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17651861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountslf being situated on the elevated point of land already men- tioned, and commanding a beautiful view of the bay with its fine scenery all round. But— ** * Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound ' from the uninh…
  3. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17661861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountsnciliated their affections once more, and succeeded in keeping the peace. In regard to the word Mawgooy^ I may mention, as an additional illustration- of the singular diversity of languages among the aborigines of Austr…
  4. ghost in Queensland, Australia#17671861 / Internet Archive / QLD / Ghost and Apparition Accountshe Australian dialects. There are at least twenty-five different dialects spoken within 200 miles' radius of Brisbane. " Turrubul *' is spoken at Brisbane, and " Dippil " about the Glasshouse mountains, sixty miles nort…
  5. ghost in Human Repetends#22611872 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Ghost and Apparition Accountslose her before a word could pass between us, appeared to give me the right to seek to know more of her. The proud queen of many a fantastic dream-revel; the sad chatelaine of many an air-built castle; had this portrait…
  6. ghost in Tales of Australian Life#19981875 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsinquire, it is not. If you think I'd ask one of them to-morrow one breath of a io6 Marie Denton. question about the reports that are going, you're mistaken — 'tsht ! " Miss Bertram snapped her fingers with an air of utt…
AboutSourceIndexMap