By the mid-1840s, wool exports from Victoria are worth almost 5 million pounds.
Aborigines are massacred in isolated incidents around Victoria.
In 1841, one British immigrant ship per week arrives in Port Phillip.
The first non-British immigrant ship arrives from Germany in 1848.
Poor Law commissioners in Great Britain approve an immigration scheme to send female orphans from English workhouses to Australia.
281 'time expired' convicts are sent from Hobart.
Caroline Chisholm assists immigrant women and families by establishing the Family Colonisation Loan Society.
Aus Pop (1845): 279,148
Vic Pop (1846): 32,879
Figures taken from Colonial and Commonwealth censuses and exclude Aborigines until 1971.