Land of gold

Australia, 1983

TV show
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Episode number 5 of Series “Peach’s gold”.
Using dramatised re-enactments as well as historical footage, Bill Peach investigates the economic crash of the 1890s and the exhaustion of the goldfields at Ballarat and Bendigo. He describes how the less well known but far more productive goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie rescued Australia from the depths of depression and continued to contribute to the country’s economy up to the early 1980s.

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Credits

producer/director

Mark Hamlyn

production company

ABC-TV (Australia)

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1983

Appears in

Peach's gold

Group of items

Peach's gold

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

314503

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Western Australia

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

History → Australia - History

History → Gold - Australia - History

History → History

Places → Western Australia

Television

Television → Television series

Television → Television series → Television series - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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