Chinese Gold-seekers
Chinese - Colony - Victoria - gold - Ballarat - Bendigo
In Australian History and in the Colony of Victoria, the gold-fields of Ballarat and Bendigo were populated by a largely European presence except for visible Chinese presence. The miners were also upset by Chinese diggers who kept flocking unchecked to the goldfields, because they worked so much harder and spent so much more time combing the earth, that in the end they got richer.
The miners did not like the Chinese because they were different - wearing strange clothes, speaking strange languages, smoking opium, playing strange gambling games, and sticking together without talking or mixing with the Europeans. Eventually this resentment broke out into conflict.
By the 1860s the miners had had enough, and having bottled up their anger for years, they attacked the Chinese at Lambing Flat, driving them from the goldfields in a bloody battle in which the miners killed and scalped a number of Chinese who resisted. The miners hung the Chinese scalps around their waists on a belt, and boasted back at the pubs, where they drank after the fight, of how many scalps they had collected.
There were other attacks and massacres. By 1877 the hatred had become so strong that the Chinese were banned from Queensland goldfields, and by 1888 all the colonies met at the Inter-colonial Conference on Chinese Immigration to develop plans for expelling the Chinese from Australia, or at least stopping them from coming.