Aboriginals
The gold rush was a second wave of dispossession for Australian Aborigines, many
of them, had already been forced from their land by pastoralists. The aboriginals were included in the gold rush. They found lot's of gold in the gold rush. The aboriginals like to find gold in the gold rush. The aboriginals have done all their hard work to participate in the gold rush. The aboriginals found lots of gold in the gold rush. The aboriginal people started to mine very far deep underground to find gold.Explorers and squatters had already disrupted traditional ways of life for Aboriginal people in the Victorian gold fields region. Flocks of sheep and cattle had already changed the environment and now crowds of men left significant scarring on the natural landscape. Miners cut down trees to use for firewood, housing and the boards that reinforced tunnels. Mining turned clear streams into cloudy ones. Sometimes miners diverted whole creeks and rivers to use the water in a new area. It pitted the landscape with holes which would then serve as garbage pits. That they were occupying and damaging the traditional land of people from the was not a thought that entered most miners' minds.Indigenous Australians were marvelled at for their physical skills in hunting and tracking. Europeans like Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye (writing in 1861) were amazed by the displays of Indigenous Australians near Avoca throwing boomerangs. She described the 100 yards (92 metres) flight of this 'half-moon' that returned to the thrower's feet as 'most astonishing'.