Australia's Bicentenary
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- Before the gold rush
- Chinese workers
- Australian gold rush
- Chinese miners
- Anti-Chinese violence
- Lambing flat riots
- A safe haven
- Isolated and homesick
- Rise of merchants
- Market gardens and musicians
- Vendors and cooks
- Laundries and factories
- The general store
- Trouble in the homeland
- Opium
- Revolution in China
- Republican victory
- Healing the sick
- The strength of traditions
- Religion
- Developing the north
- Riverboat trade
- Entrepreneurs
- Politics and racism
- Invasion
- The support effort
- The Second World War
- The war effort
- The People's Republic of China
- Melbourne Olympics
- Colombo Plan
- Multiculturalism
- Professions
- Rising to the top
- Australia's Bicentenary
- Towards the future
- Final inscription
- How to read the scroll
- Creating the scroll
- The people
- Acknowledgements and bibliography
Australia's Bicentenary
1988 marked the bicentenary of the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney. Chinese Australians commemorated the event with numerous activities and performances that celebrated the significant roles they had played in Australia's history over the past 200 years.
Celebration of a nation
This scroll commemorates Australia's Bicentenary in 1988. The Bicentenary marked the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney in 1788. Captain Arthur Phillip (1738–1814), commander of the First Fleet, established the foundations of a British colony at Sydney Cove on the 26 January 1788.
The 1988 Australian Bicentenary celebration advertising motto was 'Celebration of a nation'. Events organised to celebrate this milestone included re-enactments of the First Fleet's arrival in Port Jackson, street parades and concerts. Brisbane also hosted the World Expo and the Australian Mint issued commemorative coins.
