In 1851, gold was discovered in Australia. How did the gold rush shape the country?

The Australian government has nominated the goldfields in the country's southeast for World Heritage status. Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, on Friday announced that the ...

Some investors are betting the precious metal will soar as President Trump fails to arrest America’s spiralling public debt.

For people hoping to invest their fortune ... Paul even made a Prime bottle out of the stuff. During the Australian gold rush ...

People could whip up xenophobia and really ... Historians such as Mr McKinnon say stories have been told about the Australian gold rush that may not have been necessarily true because they ...

The Taiwanese Australian director of the four ... By the end of the gold rush in 1914, some Chinese people returned to China while others settled in Australia. Chinese vegetable farmers in ...

And West Australian gold explorer Spartan ... In addition, many central banks, such as the People’s Bank of China have been buying gold to diversify their holdings away from US bond markets.

Inspired by true events the drama is based in the harsh wild west era of the Australian gold rush as Europeans, Chinese and Americans all race to make their fortunes as they search for gold. An ...