Between 1857 and 1863, more than 17,000 Chinese migrants walked from the seaside town of Robe, home to about 200 residents, to Ballarat.
abc.net.au/news/chinese-gold-miners-500km-trek-to-ballarat-goldfields/101996162Fleeing violence, famine, and poverty in their homeland, tens of thousands of Chinese migrants travelled to Australia in the 1850s, bound for the Ballarat goldfields.
For many passengers, their hardships would only continue and some would not survive the gruelling 500-kilometre trek from Robe to the Victorian goldfields.Museums Association historian Anna Kyi said during the middle of the 19th century China was in turmoil. To the white colonists and local Indigenous people, the Chinese migrants were an exotic sight, walking in single file in groups of up to 700 across Western Victoria.
Some would be exploited or blackmailed into work at the hands of guides or the bullock teams transporting goods from town to town. About one in five of the total male population in the Victorian mining towns in this period were Chinese. "Even before the gold rush period, some Chinese were already in Ballarat, and this story, this history hasn't been told enough and not many people know about it," Mr Zhang said.From the early 1850s, Chinese diggers arrived at the goldfields in large numbers, mostly from an area known as Sze Yap in the province of Canton.In two years, the number of Chinese migrants on the Ballarat diggings almost doubled from 5,000 in 1856 to 9,000 in 1858.
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