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It is still dark when ageing renegades and union officials gather at the site of the Eureka Stockade to solemnly remember the uprising that occurred 167 years ago today. Normally the dawn ...
David Caird. The Eureka Stockade was the climax of a long dispute between miners and the government over the unfairness of the licences. Just days before the stockade, the miners, who were led by ...
The Eureka Stockade and flag are an important part of Ballarat's story but are also a caution to us to keep an eye on democracy into the future. Nieve is The Courier's political reporter.
It has taken almost 150 years, but belatedly some of the forgotten faces of the Eureka Stockade are beginning to emerge from the fog of time: the women, the Aborigines, other so-called men of colour.
At the end of the film, the camera zooms in over 21st-century Ballarat, pulling into focus an ideology at the heart of the Eureka Stockade that lives on: capitalism. "When we come back to shots of ...
A rare copy of the book known as the Bible of the Eureka Stockade has gone under the hammer in Melbourne. A rare copy of a book giving a unique account of the Eureka Stockade miners' uprising in ...
Then there are the stories of the women sheltering their men inside the Eureka Stockade as it was overrun; the army officer who stopped the rout becoming an indiscriminate slaughter; and the ...
When Peter Lalor's great-great grandson asked the Ballarat Council in 1979 to fly the flag of the Southern Cross to mark the 125th anniversary of the battle of the Eureka Stockade, he was knocked ...
David Caird. The Eureka Stockade was the climax of a long dispute between miners and the government over the unfairness of the licences. Just days before the stockade, the miners, who were led by ...