Editing Economy of Australia (section)

===Mining===
{{Main|Mining in Australia}}
Mining has contributed to Australia's high level of economic growth, from the [[Australian gold rushes|gold rush]] in the 1840s to the present day. The opportunities for large profits in pastoralism and mining attracted considerable amounts of British capital, while expansion was supported by enormous government outlays for transport, communication, and urban infrastructures, which also depended heavily on British finance. As the economy expanded, large-scale immigration satisfied the growing demand for workers, especially after the end of convict transportation to the eastern mainland in 1840. Australia's mining operations secured continued economic growth and Western Australia itself benefited strongly from mining iron ore and gold from the 1960s and 1970s which fuelled the rise of suburbanisation and consumerism in [[Perth]], the capital and most populous city of Western Australia, as well as other regional centres.