Watercolour on Paper. The watercolour shows the 1804 convict rebellion at Castle Hill.

The Broken Hill Ottoman Flag is rare being unique and one a few items from the New Years Day attack at Broken Hill in 1915.

Discover the collection of objects from the German and Austrian refugees who transported to Australia on the SS Dunera and were later interred at Hay internment camp during World War Two.

Discover a collection of late nineteenth century personal effects and shop stock owned by the Wong’s – an Anglo-Chinese family from Bolong, Australia.

The harrow is part of a series of regional collection of objects integral to the story of the Chinese on the goldfields, agriculture and the establishment of regional Chinese communities.

Discover the medal presented as a mark of esteem to Charles De Boos, Gold Fields Warden, from Chinese Miners in the Braidwood district in 1881.

Discover a typical opium pipe used by nineteenth century Chinese miners that is a part of a series of regional collections integral to the story of the Chinese on the goldfields and the establishment of regional Chinese communities.

Discover the Gold Miner’s Licence from the 1850s. Miner’s licences were hated by the diggers and this with other antagonisms with the government and police led to the famous Eureka Rebellion of 1854.

Discover the Act passed in the New South Wales Parliament in 1881 to place restrictions on immigration of Chinese to the Colony.

The coins have historic value as evidence of the events that surround the internment of POWs in Australia in World War 2 and the experience of the refugees and POWs life at the Hay POW camp.

See the bugle that Japanese prisoner of war TOYOSHIMA HAJIME used to signal the start of the mass escape of Japanese POWs from Cowra POW Camp in 1944.

The banner’s historic value lies in its relationship to the themes of the gold rush experience, racial antagonism, the fear of the exotic and unknown, and ideologies that culminated in the first act of the newly Federated Commonwealth of Australia, the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act.

By 1929 the world economy began to slow. Rural product prices were falling and farmers found it hard to sell their produce overseas. In the cities, businesses found it harder…