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Chinatown, Darwin

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335: 395: 37:." In Darwin, the Chinese faced racial discrimination much more compared to the rest of Australia. Darwin's Chinatown was described as "... an unsightly slum, where cramped unhygenic living conditions endangered public health." These reports were further used "... to order the demolition of several dwellings in Chinatown in 1913." 60:
Darwin's Chinatown and thereby effect "the elimination of undesirable elements which Darwin has suffered from far too much in the past". He further stated that the acquisition would "entirely prevent the Chinese quarter forming again" and that "if land is acquired from the former Chinese residents
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There is presently no Chinatown in Darwin. However, there is an office building named "Chinatown" and a car park called the Chinatown Car Park, both on
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500 acres (200 ha) of land in Darwin's town centre, of which 53 acres (21 ha) was owned by Chinese residents.
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Darwin's Chinatown was razed to the ground during World War II, through a combination of
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there is really no need for them to return as they have no other assets". Under the
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Mixed relations: narratives of Asian/Aboriginal contact in North Australia
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Banana bending: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian literatures
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when "... 186 Chinese workers arrived in 1874 by ship from
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Index

Darwin
Chinatown
Singapore
World War II
Japanese aerial bombing
Aubrey Abbott
Joseph Carrodus
Department of the Interior
compulsorily acquire
compulsorily acquired
Smith St
Banana bending: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian literatures
ISBN
9780773525511
Mixed relations: narratives of Asian/Aboriginal contact in North Australia
ISBN
9781920694418
Giese 1995
Giese 1995
Giese 1995
Beyond Chinatown
ISBN
0642106339
v
t
e
Chinatowns in Australia
Adelaide
Atherton
Brisbane

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