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18543 December 1854 · Ballarat, Victoria

Eureka Stockade

The obelisk memorial flanked by cannon in Eureka Park, Ballarat, near the site of the 1854 stockade
Photo: Peterdownunder. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Angered by costly mining licences and violent licence hunts, Ballarat diggers swore allegiance to the blue-and-white Southern Cross flag at Bakery Hill on 29 November 1854 and built a stockade under Peter Lalor. At dawn on 3 December soldiers and police overran it; about 27 people died. Juries acquitted all thirteen men tried for treason, and the reforms that followed gave the vote to all adult men.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Eureka Centre, Eureka Stockade Memorial ParkMuseum in the park on the stockade site, displaying the original Eureka Flag.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Bakery HillCentral Ballarat rise where the diggers first raised the flag and swore their oath.Map ↗

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