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A gold rush of 1851–1852 brought many people to Australia, including some from California. The most notorious bushrangers were the Kelly Gang. They became folk heroes of sorts—symbols of the convicts’ struggle against British law and authority. The leader, Ned Kelly, was finally captured and executed in 1880, ending the era of the wild frontier. Whether convict or free, assisted or unassisted, the European immigrants who created the coastal colonies and expanded the settlement frontier came mainly from the British Isles.
Australia produces 16 percent of the world’s exported beef.
Moreover, the large Greek and Serbian immigrations built an Eastern Orthodox Christian Church of 500,000, and Germans remained true to a 250,000-member Lutheran Church. Add to this mix some 201,000 Muslims, and Australia emerges as a multidenominational country. Still, even in this diversity, a sense of oneness can be detected. The country has no dominantly Catholic, Protestant, or Muslim regions. Nothing comparable exists to, say, the Catholic zone in Hispanic and French Louisiana areas in the southern United States.