This is the flag that inspired
a rebellion, that inspired those
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at Eureka. It
was sewn in secret.
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The people sheltering
in the Eureka Stockade
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didn't want to change
the system of government,
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they wanted to be included
in it. They weren't insurgents,
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they were not revolutionaries,
they rebelled against vicious
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treatment by police when
all peaceful means of protest
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had failed. They sewed
a flag and built a fence,
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they fought back and today
all of us are the beneficiaries
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of their fight.
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The story of the Eureka
Stockade is more than a famous
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battle in our history,
it's a fundamental milestone
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on Australia's road to
Democracy. In today's episode
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we will travel back to
the 1850's and walk with
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the gold miners and
their families from Bakery Hill
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to the Eureka Stockade.
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This is Peter Lalor, he was
elected as a Victorian member of
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Parliament in 1856 and served
as the speaker of the house here
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for seven years
from 1880 to 1887.
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But in 1854 after leading
a rebellion of gold miners
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at Eureka, 27-year-old Peter
Lalor was the most wanted man
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in Australia with a reward
of over $25,000 for anyone
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who handed him in to the police.
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How Peter Lalor went from
rebellious fugitive to a long-
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standing member of
Parliament in only two years,
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is just one small part
of the fascinating story of
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Democracy in Australia.
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The Eureka Stockade is often
referred to the Eureka Legend
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or a Revolution. The reality
is just a sad story of violent
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bloodshed, it's the
events before and after Eureka
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that are legendary
in their own right.
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And with a
foundation for a freedom,
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we take for granted today.
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Over 270 soldiers were
instructed to attack the
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Stockade built at the
Eureka mining site at 4:00 a.m.
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on Sunday morning. They silently
surrounded the sleeping miners
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in the Stockade, there
was a 15 minute battle.
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The diggers in the stockade
at the time were asleep,
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outnumbered, outgunned,
and unskilled fighters.
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The tragedy happened after
the battle, it was bayonets
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not bullets that
did the most damage.
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Crazed soldiers and police
thrust their blades into the
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dead and dying, others
surrounded tents and sliced
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and jabbed at the bullet riddled
canvas. Then the order was given
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to burn to the ground all
the tents in the stockade and
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vicinity. Tents were set afire
with people sleeping in them
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or still containing
bodies of wounded or dead.
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By the time the sun was up,
it was all over, the troops and
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police returned to their camp
cheering, meanwhile the people
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of the Ballarat woke to
the smell of burning canvas
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and the sounds of weeping.
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A local man wrote in his diary:
The brave Nobel hearts did not
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turn their swords on armed men,
but galloped among the tents
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shooting at women and
cutting down defenseless men.
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New widows recognizing
the bloody remains of their
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slaughtered husband, children
screaming, and crying around
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the dead father. Cowardly
and the monstrous cruelties,
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it is a dark indelible
stain on a British Government.
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Just seven days after Victoria
declared its independence from
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New South Wales, gold was
found in central Victoria.
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When gold was discovered,
it seemed that overnight
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the workers of
Australia had gone AWOL, farms,
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building sites, ships, police
barracks, government offices,
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shearing sheds
all were deserted.
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News of Victoria supposedly
infinite supply of gold
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were shared in Newspapers and
letters in London, Edenborough,
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Dublin, Paris, Warsaw,
Munich, Washington, Toronto, and
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Shanghai and the
people rushed to Victoria.
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The early diggers of the 1850s
were not the professional miners
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of the 1860s, a decade later,
they were individual speculators
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anxious about their
families living conditions,
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eager to make their
fortune with gold and go home.
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Gold mining was back breaking
hard work with no guarantee of
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a find. For every family that
did well, two or three lived in
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complete poverty. In order to
dig each miner had to purchase
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a monthly gold license
like this one which cost the
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equivalent of one week's wages.
The license fee was a head tax
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not an income tax and it was
instantly detested by all the
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miners. You could sink a
shaft next to your neighbor
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you could both wallow in the
dark and wet earth for five/six,
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nine months bailing out
the constant seeping water
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and your neighbor might
find the gold infused riverbed
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while your hole only leads to
a bend in the underground river
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missing the gold completely.
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He wins you lose but you still
have to pay your license fee,
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month in, month
out gold or no gold.
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Bigger hunts were
conducted five days a week,
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16 bullies on horseback, their
muskets loaded and swords drawn
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would descend on the diggings
accompanied by 50 soldiers on
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foot bound with clubs, they
would demand each digger show
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their even if it was left in
a tent, would be chained to tree
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logs once the
tiny lock-up was full.
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Honest but poor license
defaulters were chained together
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with hardened thieves
and assorted ex-convicts from
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Van Diemen's Land, women
were incarcerated with men.
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This is Bakery Hill in Ballarat,
it's at a junction of several
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key roads in the city,
today it's filled with shops and
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restaurants. In 1954
Bakery Hill was much the same,
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it was the natural hub of
Goldfield's activity because
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all roads met in this natural
gulley. It was here that the
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hotel's gold buyers
and merchants congregated.
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On the 11th of November,
1854 a scorching hot Sunday
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10,000 people met here at
Bakery Hill to complain about
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the police and the license
hunts. The Ballarat Community
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wanted to express outrage that
their license fees were used
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to support a police force
that did not prevent crime
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and was mostly corrupt. At
this meeting the Ballarat Reform
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League was established.
They drafted a document
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The Ballarat Reform League
Charter, we can easily read this
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document today at the old
Treasury Building in Melbourne.
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Anyone can freely visit the
Old Treasury Building here in
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Melbourne and wander into
this room, here under-glass
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is the faded blue paper
of an original copy of the
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Ballarat Reform League Charter.
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In this quiet room, it can
be easy to forget the angst and
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frustration that resulted in
the drafting of the document.
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The Bakery Hill Meeting
on the 11th of November 1854
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is now considered the first
formal step on the march through
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Australian Democracy.
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What did the diggers
wright in their Charter?
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The Charter laid out five
basic demands: Free and fair
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representation for all in
Parliament. Votes for all men
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without any property conditions.
Ability of any person to stand
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for election to the legislative
council. Salaries for those
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elected. And fixed
terms for those elected.
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Sound familiar? Each of these
five points we take for granted
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today, each of them are vital
to the operation of Australia's
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Federal Elections. The members
of the Ballarat Formal League
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didn't just pull these requests
from thin air, to understand why
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they made these requests, we
need to look at the background
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of the members themselves.
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This is a map that is
part of the Eureka Memorial in
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Ballarat, those who immigrated
into their thousands to the
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Victorian gold fields, aspired
to something different from
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the old power
structures they knew at home.
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These dates on the memorial
are a code for understanding
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the demands in the Ballarat
Reform League Charter, 1776
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was the American War of
Independence. Many miners
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in Ballarat came from
California bringing with them
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values of personal freedom
and independence. 1789 was the
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French Revolution which
shocked Europe when it deposed a
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monarchy and
established a French Republic.
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1798 was the Irish War of
Independence and many miners
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were Irish. 1848 saw the
formation of Italy as a country,
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in 1854 all of these
global forces for change and
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revolution are not just our
history lessons, for the miners
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the dig is here in Ballarat.
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They are lived experiences
topics for newspaper articles
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and debate, the very fabric
of the social structure of the
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world was being tested and
changed through these events.
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This was the melting pot
of Eureka, every single miner
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was aware of some kind of
cultural struggle or change
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in their home countries.
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On the 29 of November,
at another monster meeting
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on Bakery Hill, of 15,000
people almost a half the total
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population of Ballarat at
the time. Many diggers lined up
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to throw their licenses on
a bonfire, an act of communal
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protest. A flag was
hoisted, not a national flag,
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but a purpose made flag. This
is the flag that we now know
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as the Eureka flag, the
people of Ballarat called it the
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Australian flag, it was inspired
by the one thing that united
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each and every resident of
Ballarat, the constellation
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of the Southern Cross.
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Those five bright stars were
the first thing that immigrants
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saw when they crossed the
invisible line in the ocean
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into the southern hemisphere.
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The Victorian Governor
had rejected the charter
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presented by the Ballarat
Reform League, the diggers felt
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under siege ignored by the
governor, now elected leader
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to represent them and persecuted
by the local authorities.
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They burned their licenses
in protest under a flag that
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united them and then went home.
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The next day, the soldiers
and police decided to show
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force by instigating
a massive license hunt.
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The mounted police began
to gallop among the tents
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firing shots into the crowded
tents where women and children
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were sheltering. The
confused crowd tried to scatter,
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police were pelted with
mud, stones, and broken bottles,
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soldiers dropped to one
knee and aimed their guns at the
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people. Miners jumped
down holes and women and men
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tried to disappear behind tents.
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As news of the chaos and random
firing of the crowd, including
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women and children spread,
other sympathetic diggers
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downed tools to
seek information.
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From all directions on the
diggings, people walked in the
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direction of Bakery Hill, the
Australian flag was once again
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flying, those who came had
lost faith in the government
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through hunger, grief, shame,
disappointment, harassment,
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indignity, humiliation and
powerlessness, the object was
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now self-defense. The
leaders of Ballarat had shown
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that they would fire
upon a civilian crowd,
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this was the way masters
treated servants and dogs.
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The people looked for a
leader and from the crowds
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the 27-year-old Irishman Peter
Lalor, his father was an Irish
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MP and his eldest brother fought
in the young Irish movement
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in Ireland.
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Peter Lalor stepped from
the crowd and led the assembled
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group of 1,000 diggers wives
and children on a march from
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Bakery Hill to Eureka,
they took the flag with them.
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The group now led by
Peter Lalor decided to throw up
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a hasty barricade. There needed
to be a place of shelter to
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protect those diggers who
had burned their licenses.
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They grabbed any suitable
material they could find
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to build a barricade,
overturned carts, empty barrels
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felled trees, thick
slabs used to line mine shaft.
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When it was finished, Peter
Lalor led the group back to
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Bakery Hill and raised the
Australia flag, he then kneeled,
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removed his hat and raised his
hand towards the flag and made
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this oath. We swear by the flag
of the seven crafts to stand
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truly by each other and
fight to defend our rights
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and liberties. The group
moved back down the hill to the
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stockade, it was sunset Thursday
evening, there would be a
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standoff until just
before dawn Sunday morning.
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Twice over the next two days
Peter Lalor sent representatives
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to the government camp to
try to negotiate a suspension
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of the license hunts until
the people had the opportunity
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to put their case against the
licensing system to the governor
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their
representatives were ignored.
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During the day there
were at least 1,500 people
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crammed into the stockade,
most slept in their own tents
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at night as the stockade was to
prevent the arrest of unlicensed
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diggers and there had never
been a license hunt at night.
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The diggers expected that
Sunday would be the customary
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day of rest and many of
them left the stockade on
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Saturday evening to do
thing with their families.
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The stockade emptied out,
even the local priest encouraged
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everyone in the stockade
to come to church on Sunday.
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Many of the soldiers at Ballarat
had been on 24-hour century duty
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for days without sleep,
washing or changing clothes
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and it had been
pouring rain overnight.
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The soldiers and police were
badly paid and living in crammed
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conditions. Over 540 weary
soldiers were kept on constant
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alert by the military captain
fed on rumors of an imminent
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attack. The order was
given to march on the stockade
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at 2:00 a.m., the soldiers
eagerly made their way here
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to this ground.
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Today Eureka is a lovely park,
tall trees and a playground
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that's constructed to look like
a stockade with soldiers out
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the front, in fact, it's
so peaceful, we have to try
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very very hard to imagine the
chaos, panic, fear, and death
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that happened here.
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Following the battle many
miner and soldiers lay dead.
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Later that day, most of
the dead miners were carried in
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rough coffins on drays
here to Ballarat' s old cemetery
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and buried in a common grave.
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This monument marks the
location and lists their names.
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This is it, the flag
that inspired a rebellion,
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that inspired those who were
down-trodden to take a stand.
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There were squares missing
because the soldiers cut out
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souvenirs, but it's
still beautiful isn't it?
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It was sewn in secret, such
a massive flag to sew secretly.
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The people in Ballarat
were not disloyal to the queen,
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they didn't want to
change the system of government,
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they just wanted
to be included in it.
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At no time did they launch
an assault on authorities,
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they were not insurgents,
they were not revolutionaries,
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they rebelled against an
unpopular and viciously policed
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tax when all peaceful means
of protest had been rebuffed.
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They fought back when attacked
by the military in a preemptive
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strike intended to
restore government authority
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without listening to the people,
they sewed a flag and built
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a fence. Thirteen miners
were selected to face charges of
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high treason, the trials
dissolved in fast making a
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laughingstock of the government,
no jury would convict the miners
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and there was no
evidence of treason.
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A royal commission investigating
the gold fields recommending
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that the licensing laws
be replaced with a system
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where miners paid a tax on gold
they found rather than on the
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possibility of finding gold.
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The mining license was
replaced by a one pound yearly
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miners right. Peter Lalor
came out of hiding and in 1855,
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he was one of the two
diggers leaders voted into the
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legislative assembly
to represent Ballarat.
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So, one year after the
Eureka violence, the miners had
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representation in
Parliament, within three years,
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the right to vote was given
to all male British subjects
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over the age of 21, this is
the legendary result of Eureka.
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But equality wasn't given
to all, Australia had to wait
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another 48 years before
the passing of the Commonwealth
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Franchise Act in 1902
gave white women full political
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equality with men and
made Australia the most
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Democratic Nation in the world.
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Aboriginal men and women would
not receive these rights until
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the 1960's. Many of the issues
simmering in Ballarat during
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1854, were the results of
poor actions by the leaders in
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government,
police, and military.
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Corrupt leaders, selfish
leaders, power-hungry leaders,
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leaders greedy for
money and prestige.
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Today, we have the right to
choose our political leaders
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who then regulate the
laws that govern our police and
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military. It's a right we take
for granted today but in 1854
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a bonfire of injustice
and violence burned many
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who had been suffering
in poverty without the right
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of representation. So, how can
we show that we appreciate the
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Legacy of Eureka? How can we
show that we value the gift of
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being able to have a
say in the selection of our
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representatives in government?
Well, while in prison
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the Apostle Paul wrote
many letters, in one letter to
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Timothy, Paul reminded
him about the power of prayer
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in supporting leaders.
Here's what Paul wrote.
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So, we are encouraged to
pray for our government leaders
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pray that they will
govern justly and honorably
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and in the best
interest of our society.
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Pray that they will
govern with wisdom and that they
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concern will be for the well-
being of all, and pray that God
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will accomplish his
purpose through them.
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Let's ensure that we don't
take our Democracy and freedom
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for granted. We need to remember
that this freedom was paid for
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in blood at Eureka Stockade.
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Eureka is a reminder of the
eternal human dream for liberty,
00:23:37.31\00:23:42.28
equality and freedom, a
dream that belongs to everyone,
00:23:42.32\00:23:46.09
a dream that will never
parish from the earth, Why?
00:23:46.12\00:23:50.76
Because God has placed
the desire for freedom in our
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hearts. We weren't made to be
slaves, we were designed to be
00:23:54.40\00:23:59.63
free and we cannot be satisfied
or find peace until we are free
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and this is true in a
spiritual sense as well.
00:24:03.94\00:24:06.81
True freedom, freedom from guilt
and sin can only be found in
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Jesus. You see, being a slave
to sin is the ultimate bondage
00:24:12.05\00:24:17.15
the freedom that Jesus
offers is a spiritual freedom
00:24:17.19\00:24:21.16
from the guilt and bondage
of sin. Listen to what it says
00:24:21.19\00:24:25.49
in John 8:32-36.
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Jesus is the truth,
knowing the truth, knowing Jesus
00:24:41.21\00:24:45.88
sets us free from sin,
free from guilt, and free from
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condemnation. Wouldn't you
like to experience that freedom?
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True freedom, well, you can,
why not ask for it right now
00:24:53.39\00:24:58.13
as we pray.
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Dear heavenly Father,
Today we have been reminded
00:25:02.33\00:25:06.60
of the importance of freedom
and just how precious it is.
00:25:06.63\00:25:09.34
We admire those who
have championed the cause of
00:25:09.37\00:25:12.64
liberty and democracy. Today we
want to recognize the greatest
00:25:12.67\00:25:17.15
of liberators, Jesus Christ,
and thank you for the freedom
00:25:17.18\00:25:20.92
that He brings to our lives.
Thank you for setting us free
00:25:20.95\00:25:25.22
from sin and guilt. In
Jesus name we pray. Amen!
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The story of Eureka Stockade
and the struggle for democracy
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and freedom is certainly
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