Ballarat's Chinese community were not just gold miners - they were staunch unionists

Caleb Cluff
November 2 2021 - 6:00pm
A marvellous life: Christine Wicking today, living in Geelong. Picture: Christopher Dower.
A marvellous life: Christine Wicking today, living in Geelong. Picture: Christopher Dower.

The SBS series New Gold Mountain filmed at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, Victoria, makes much our stereotypes of the time: the honourable, business-savvy yet inscrutable Chinese, the sturdy, passionate Irish, the malevolent, bumbling English overlords, the wise Indigenous. While these tropes make for good, politically-correct drama in a murder mystery, our cultural truth is nuanced and more fascinating.

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Caleb Cluff

Caleb Cluff

Senior Journalist, The Courier

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