Gold Rush Stories - Part 6 - What Was The Anti-Transportation Movement?

Gold Rush Stories - Part 6 - What Was The Anti-Transportation Movement?

 

GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 6 - WHAT WAS THE ANTI-TRANSPORTATION MOVEMENT?

 

 

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In 1850 the Australasian Anti-Transportation League was formed to lobby for the permanent cessation of transportation, its aims being furthered by the commencement of the Australian gold rushes the following year, which led the British Government to discontinue transportation, because it was seen as an incentive for criminals to be transported to eastern Australia.

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