Yes and there were some reasonably successful diggers among them.
However, the Aborigines benefitted more by offering their services as guides to potential diggers looking for new sites. Also, with the wave of workers leaving sheep and cattle stations for the goldfields, Aborigines had better prospects with employment there, rather than the goldfields.
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They had poor conditions, and were paid rations or close to nothing for their cheap labour.
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Aborigines rarely bothered to look for gold, but they were able to trade with the miners. Some of them even became members of the Native Police Corps, and many were employed as "black trackers".
The aboriginal people saw little value in gold for themselves. Gold not be eaten; it could not be used in any practical ways. The Aborigines benefitted more by offering their services as guides to potential diggers looking for new sites. Also, with the wave of workers leaving sheep and cattle stations for the goldfields, Aborigines had better prospects with employment there, rather than the goldfields.
There are no longer any Australian indigenous people (Aborigines) living a traditional native lifestyle in Australian rainforests.
Australian Goldfields Open was created in 1979.
who knows what Germans wore on the australian goldfields
education was poor on the goldfields it is not like these days
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd officially apologised to the Stolen Generations of Australian Aborigines on 13 February 2008.
It's tough for Australian Aborigines to eke out a living in the outback.
The Australian aborigines migrated from Africa around 70,000 years ago, and started living in Australia about 50,000 years ago.
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Australian Aborigines are not a civilization, they are a people native to the Australian mainland including the island of Tasmania. It is widely believed that the first Aborigines migrated to Australia over 40,000 years ago.
The Australian aborigines
Yes they came
Kangaroo was a popular food for the Australian Aborigines anywhere on the mainland.