welcome to mr. Marsh 30-minute history quick summary is about a range of different history topics today we're going back to a time in the 1800s and 1900s when large numbers of Scots were emigrating to Australia and we will consider the impact they had there and their experiences - one of the major effects that the Scots had in Australia was their economic impact indeed it was the prospect of receiving better lives which had attracted many Scots to move in the first instance mainly Scots who went took the skills that we have learned in Scotland and worked in Australia this included jobs such as stonemasons join us and engineers other professional Scots who had been lawyers doctors or teachers also went and found work - one of the major issues that we associate Scots in Australia with is to do with farming many Scots who had worked on farms in Scotland went over with the rune skills and phone jobs in Australia others in fact went over because they died the prospect of cheap or even potentially free land and this attracted them to go and save their own farms one man who was not Scottish himself but from a Scottish family was John McArthur John McArthur has cleared it with introducing the sheep farming industry and into Australia with the introduction of the merino sheep bleat other Scots were involved in Australia's alcohol industry including setting up breweries and winemaking companies too many other Scots took mining skills they've learned in Scotland and either continued coal mining or indeed became gold miners as well Scots were also involved in many political activities Andrew Fisher from earshot was play Minister of Australia under the occasions and he was also the leader of the Australian Labor Party there were also many governors of New South Wales who had come from Scotland this includes join hunter and Lachlan Macquarie perhaps most famous was Thomas Brisbane who ended up having one of Australia's main cities named after him the Scots in Australia had a social and cultural impact as well many places in Australia are named after Scottish locations this includes Dundee Pere and our Bob Dean and there was also a religious of impact some Scots had moved across as missionaries to try and convey out native Australians and others had gone to set up churches through Scots who demi-glace to could continue their faith especially that of the Presbyterian Church numerous Scottish organizations were self as well including bottoms clubs Caledonian clubs and the results of Scottish sport in the shape of Highland Games in shinty Scots had very poor relations often with Australian natives whom the Scots called Aborigines although the natives themselves would not have used this name this was primarily over land the Scots often took land from the Aborigines including that which was sacred in Hawaii indeed there was an irony as Professor Tom Devane has pointed out that many of the Scots thrown off their land in the Highland Clearances went to Australia and did the same to natives this led to a huge amount of deaf and conflict between the native Australians and the European settlers including Scots one notable Scott was Angus McMullen who was involved in potentially killing up to 180 Aboriginal people another major controversy in which Scots were involved was that of the native institution this was when Scots and other European settlers took the children of native Australians from them and taught them different languages and religions in the belief that this would sever ways then understandably this and other factors led to F or worsening of relations between the Scots and the natives