In the 1800s, colonial settlers moved Ballarat's Yarrowee River. The impacts are still felt today
- Written by David Waldron, Senior Lecturer in History, Federation University Australia
The discovery of gold in Ballarat in 1851 transformed its landscape to a staggering degree. Within days, and despite the news being initially suppressed, hundreds of men had gathered along the Yarrowee River.
They sluiced the clay and soil, turning the once pristine waters into what writer William Bramwell Withers described as
liquid, yellow as the...
















