ASSISTED MIGRATION
Aug 27, 2020
2 minutes
HE NUMBER OF CONVICTS sent to Australia increased sharply in the 1820s, lifting the proportion in New South Wales in 1828 to 46 per cent of the population – up from 30 per cent two decades earlier. At the same time, Australia was becoming attractive to Britain’s relatively wealthy. After the crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813, huge land tracts became available in NSW, the wool industry
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