Jul 4: Buckland River Digger Uprising 1857 sparked the birth of the White Australia Policy
Greedy Chinese have been invading Australia since 1818 when opium-smoking coolie Mak Sai Ying stowawayed downunder to Sydney Cove. Then in 1848 some 120-odd from Xiamen in China arrived in Sydney aboard the Nimrod to become the first round of ‘coolie’ indentured…