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Eureka Stockade Kit: 14 Posters and Prints 994.57031 EUR

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• The impact of a significant development or event on a colony; for example, frontier conflict, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, internal exploration, the advent of rail, the expansion of farming, drought.
• The reasons people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia, and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony.

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