Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross by Charles Doudiet 1854, but only rediscovered in 1996. A large crowd of miners gather in a ring around a flagpole bearing the new Eureka, or Southern Cross, flag. Source: Art Gallery of Ballarat

The miners responded by building the #EurekaStockade, and taking up arms. If you are Australian, you probably know what happened next.

It pisses me off when I see RW nationalist dickheads carry #EurekaStockade flag. Why? 1) Eureka Stockade was a multicultural rebellion 2) After Peter Lalor other leader was Raffaelo Corbini, an Italian 3) the word Eureka is GREEK! So, on every level racist 'nationalists' using this flag are fvcked.

Large-scale poster featuring Peter Lalor, the leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade who went on later to become a politician & Speaker of the Victorian Parliament. The hotel is on the corner of Doveton and Mair Streets, Ballarat.

Historical artwork overlooking the street in historical #Ballarat.

This is Mister Lalors Social club aka Royal Oak, Tait's Hotel, Royal Highlander Hotel, The Pub With Two Names, The Highlander & Peter Lalor Hotel. First constructed in 1864

The namesake was #EurekaStockade leader & later politician

Eureka! . . . and the “Haiku Moment” I must be lonely I guess, because two days in row I’ve written haiku about silence, and it’s true that I’ve been living a very solitary life lately. Almost all of my fr…

eureka . . .!
a moment of clarity –
just silent stars

A post about the “Haiku Moment” & the 170 year anniversary of the Eureka Stockade

#Haiku #AustralianHaiku #HaikuOz #HaikuMoment #Eureka #EurekaStockade #Australia #AustralianFlag
#SouthernCross

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This Day In History
(1854CE):
Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
#ThisDayInHistory #EurekaStockade #AUSHistory #mining #goldrush

On This Day In History
1586 Thomas Herriot introduces #potatoes to England from Colombia

1854 #EurekaStockade:
more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses.
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev and George H. W. Bush, declare the #ColdWar over.

At the head of the #Eureka rebellion was Peter Fintan Lalor (brother of #YoungIrelander James Fintan Lalor) & the password to enter was “#VinegarHill”
Most rebels inside the #EurekaStockade at the time of the battle were Irish, & the area was heavily populated by Irish miners
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Among the many rebels at the #EurekaStockade were anarchists, Chartists, democrats & - crucially - Irish republicans
Many Irish at #Eureka came via the California gold fields, where their memories of the Great Famine mixed with ideas of the American revolution & independence.
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On Dec 3, 1854, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Dutch, English, Scottish, German, American, Canadian (& more) gold miners - with Chinese workers in sympathy strikes - united in rebellion at the #EurekaStockade.
A military failure, it was key to the birth of #democracy in #Australia
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“The defence was able to argue that the goldfields were pretty multicultural and a lot of people of African descent were there, so how could you prove that it was #JohnJoseph?” who fired the shot that killed Captain Henry Wise

#EurekaStockade