ABSTRACT
IN VICTORIA, the conditions differed from those of New South Wales because of the density of population and because both the squatters and the goldminers were much more insistent on their rights. The struggle was of necessity protracted, the more so because there was no region, as in New South Wales, where the squatter and the selector could live side by side and none, like the Darling district, to which the squatter alone could retreat. Therefore, the campaign in New South Wales was merely an agitation, in Victoria, a conflict.
