Qualla: Eureka Rebellion https://qualla.com/eureka-rebellion en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/1/q/6/eureka-rebellion-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Eureka Rebellion https://qualla.com/eureka-rebellion Eureka Rebellion: Introduction https://qualla.com/eureka-rebellion/ Photo credit Beryl Ireland, Public domain. It was over in about fifteen minutes. At first light on Sunday, 3 December 1854, roughly 300 soldiers and police charged a rough barricade of timber and overturned carts on the Eureka goldfield at Ballarat. Behind it stood a few hundred miners, many of them exhausted, outnumbered, and asleep when the attack came; many more had drifted home the night before, never imagining the assault would fall on a Sunday morning. When the smoke cleared, at least twenty-two miners and five soldiers lay dead or dying. The miners lost the battle badly. And yet the Eureka Stockade is remembered as the moment Australian democracy was born.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/1/q/6/eureka-rebellion-wp/r1q6-eureka-rebellion-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Eureka Rebellion: A Grievance Dug from the Ground https://qualla.com/eureka-rebellion/ Photo credit Public domain. The anger came out of the gold itself. To dig, a miner had to buy a licence, an expensive monthly fee charged whether or not he found any gold, and the police enforced it with humiliating 'licence hunts' — demanding papers, dragging men from their claims, chaining offenders to lo...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/1/q/6/eureka-rebellion-wp/r1q6-eureka-rebellion-a-grievance-dug-from-the-ground.mp3 0:06 2 full Eureka Rebellion: Under the Southern Cross https://qualla.com/eureka-rebellion/ Photo credit Annie C. H. Thunder, Public domain. On 29 November some twelve thousand met again at Bakery Hill, and a new flag rose above them: a white cross and five white stars on a deep blue field, the Southern Cross. It carried no crown and no empire, only the constellation that hung over the goldfields every night. The mine...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/1/q/6/eureka-rebellion-wp/r1q6-eureka-rebellion-under-the-southern-cross.mp3 0:06 3 full Eureka Rebellion: Fifteen Minutes at Dawn https://qualla.com/eureka-rebellion/ Photo credit Alfred Clint (1843-1924), Public domain. The authorities did not wait long. They chose the early hours of Sunday, when the stockade was lightly held, and attacked before sunrise. The defenders, perhaps 120 men still inside, had pikes and a few firearms against trained troops; resistance collapsed almost at once. Soldier...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/1/q/6/eureka-rebellion-wp/r1q6-eureka-rebellion-fifteen-minutes-at-dawn.mp3 0:06 4 full Eureka Rebellion: The Battle Lost, the Cause Won https://qualla.com/eureka-rebellion/ Photo credit Matilda, CC BY-SA 4.0. The crackdown backfired completely. Thirteen captured miners were put on trial for high treason in Melbourne, and one after another, juries refused to convict them — the public was on the diggers' side. Within months the hated licence was abolished and replaced with a cheap miner...

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