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Eureka Stockade - Australia's Culture PortalThe Eureka Flag based on the constellation of the Southern Cross. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online. The Eureka rebellion, which is often referred to as the 'Eureka Stockade' is a key event in the d...
Unknown artist, Ben Hall, the bushranger, c. The exploits, capture and death of 'Brave' Ben Hall in the 1860s are part of Australian folklore, as well as marking a historical shift in the treatment of bushrangers. Hall's exploits and the apparent ineffi...
Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore. There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a...
Eventually, the arrival of people from diverse societies created a cultural diversity that is now an integral part of Australian society and identity. Image courtesy of the Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia. Migration Museum, History Trus...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
Unknown, Portrait of the bushranger Ned Kelly, 1880, glass plate negative. More books, songs and websites have been written about Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang than any other group of Australian historical figures. Unknown, Kate Kelly, sister of Ned Kelly...
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Eureka Stockade Film (more info)
The website for "The Eureka Stockade", a film by the Eureka Film Co planned for production in 2003. An epic story of action, adventure, romance and hope.
This site presents around ninety documents that trace not only the events of late December 1854, but also the lead-up to and the aftermath of the battle at Eureka. The documents have been organised into 9 'focuses', which concentrate on different aspect
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NMA Collections Search - Australian bicentennial commemorative medal depicting the Eureka Stockade (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )Description>A silver coloured metal commemorative medal depicting the Eureka Stockade. Text stating "Eureka Stockade" is inscribed on the top of the medal with the date "1854" is inscribed below the image. The back contains text stating "Australia 200 y...
In 1854, Victorian gold miners united to protect their rights. The Eureka Stockade was caused by a disagreement over what gold miners felt were unfair laws and policing of their work by government. >> On 30 November, 500 miners gathered under the Eureka ...
Carboni is most famous for his account of the battle at the Eureka Stockade. Carboni's contemporaneous account of the Eureka Stockade, The Eureka Stockade: the consequence of some pirates wanting on quarter-deck a rebellion, remains one of the most impor...
The Eureka Flag based on the constellation of the Southern Cross. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online. The Eureka rebellion, which is often referred to as the 'Eureka Stockade' is a key event in the d...
Dustjacket synopsis: "In Australia's folk memory, one event will forever stand as the great example of courage and resistance to authority: the Eureka Stockade. To him, the events were 'a practical assertion of fair-goism which, at the cost of some anguis...
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Deputation Police Constable Henry Goodenough, an undercover agent for the government, had infiltrated his way into the stockade under the pretence of being a fellow digger. That evening, paranoid that spies had infiltrated the Camp, both Commissioner Red...
Miners at Ballarat are outraged. Recently, a digger named Scobie was kicked to death at the Eureka hotel in Ballarat. ~áPeter Lalor was badly injured and went into hiding, leaving his fellow miners to deal with their own problems. ...
Electronic Encyclopaedia of Gold in Australia Carboni, Rafaello, The Eureka Stockade, Tom Keneally (introduction), The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, 2005. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.net.au/bib/PEG0...
Electronic Encyclopaedia of Gold in Australia > The Eureka Stockade of December, 1854, courtesy of Sovereign Hill Gold Museum. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.net.au/objects/DEG000380.htm> Updated: 3...
: a dictionary of the nineteenth-century Australian gold rushes, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2000. Medal and Bar: Maharajpoor Star - Issued to Lieut. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.n...
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