Which European migrant groups arrived in Mackay in the 1890s to work in the sugarcane plantations?
Italians and Maltese
Greeks and Spaniards
Germans and Dutch
French and Portuguese
Answer
Italian and Maltese migrants began arriving in Mackay in 1891 to work in the sugarcane plantations. By the 1930s, one-third of Australia's Italian migrants lived in North Queensland.
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