Bill Peach looks at Melbourne, capital of Victoria, and the migrant capital of Australia. Melbourne, and a vast area around it, was purchased from the Doutigalla Tribes in 1835 by John Batman, in a land deal as audacious as Peter Stuyvesant's purchase of Manhattan Island in the USA. Fifty years later, Victoria struck gold, and Melbourne became the thriving capital of a boom colony, attracting an enormous flow of immigrants. The city, home of such native institutions as The Melbourne Cup and Auss