Pull Factors - Australia

Question 1

Farming Industry

Answer 1

-Set up new farms on free land or worked on existing farms

-E.g. John McArthur was the main founder of sheep farming in Australia

Question 2

Businesses

Answer 2

-Many Scots moved to set up new Businesses

-E.g. John McCracken moved to Melbourne and set up a brewing company

Question 3

Mining

Answer 3

-Lots of Scots travelled to Australia not only to get a job coal mining but because of the possibility of finding gold

Question 4

Banking

Answer 4

-Leslie Duguid helped found the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney

Question 5

Religion

Answer 5

-Scots travelled to Australia to work as missionaries

-E.g. John Dungmore Lang helped spread Presbyterian Churches across Austria

Question 6

Education

Answer 6

-Set up collages - E.g. Scots Collage in Australia

Question 7

Politics

Answer 7

• Andrew Fisher became Australia’s PM 3 times between 1908 and 1915

Question 8

Culture

Answer 8

-St Andrew’s Societies appeared in different towns around Australia

Question 9

Sports

Answer 9

-In Australia Shinty , a Scottish sport, is still played in certain migrant communities

Question 10

Town names

Answer 10

Some towns in Australia are named after places in Scotland E.g. Perth, Dundee and Ayr are all towns found in Australia