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This research explores the extent to which VFR travellers utilise commercial accommodation in the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and profiles the characteristics and behaviours of this particular type of VFR traveller. The research indicated that 26% of the VFRs stayed in commercial accommodation (CVFRs). This closely aligned with research using the same method in a comparative destination, Ballarat, Australia, indicating that 22% of VFRs stayed in commercial accommodation. CVFR travellers occupied similar types of commercial accommodation as non-VFRs and engaged in similar tourism activities. However, they came from different generating regions and used different sources of information for planning their trip. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Welsh immigrant settlements in the gold mining areas of Ballarat and Sebastopol in Victoria, Australia during the later half of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the Welsh immigrants failed to maintain a unique Welsh Australian community due to their habits of marrying outside of their ethnolinguistic community, their lack of religious unity, the necessity of learning English, their refusal to live in exclusive Welsh settlement areas, and their desire to become assimilated.

The Eureka Stockade has long been portrayed as a hyper-masculine episode in Australian history, because of the myth of the goldfields as an exclusively male domain and the tangible outcome of the Ballarat uprising of 1854--manhood suffrage. Using three interpretive cases studies of women who were politically active on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854, this article provides new empirical and conceptual ways of understanding both women's role in Australia's political history and the political history of Australian women. It argues that women's defiance of the gender order contributed substantially to the rebellious roots of colonial democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

40Ar/39Ar data for muscovite separates and hydrothermally altered whole-rock samples from the Ballarat West and the Ballarat East goldfields indicate that mesothermal gold mineralisation at Ballarat occurred during several episodic pulses, ranging in age from the Late Ordovician to the Early Devonian. Initial formation of auriferous structures in the Ballarat goldfields coincided with folding and thrusting associated with the development of the western Lachlan Fold Belt between 460 and 440 Ma. Subsequent fault reactivation and magmatism resulted in remobilisation and additional mineralisation between 410 and 380 Ma, and around 370 Ma. The results presented herein are in agreement with findings for other major gold deposits in central Victoria and further constrain the history of deformation, metamorphism and mineralisation in the western subprovince of the Lachlan Fold Belt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]