Eureka Flag – we cop first shots by Ballaarat indignant Left pretending they own Eureka’s memory

by Jim Saleam and others. | We anticipated our choice of logo would invite the usual ranting from the usual suspects. This week, we read that even before our application is even advertised in the press by the Electoral Commission inviting any…

December 3: Eureka Stockade Day

Today marks the 161st anniversary of the storming by British troops of the Eureka Stockade at Ballaarat. Much has been written by all sorts of people about Eureka and its legacy – and of course, about the blue and white Flag of…

Dec 3: Eureka Stockade – the Digger Uprising

Eureka Stockade Day Australia’s anniversary of democratic rebellion remembered   December 3rd is a significant date on Australia’s national calendar. On this day in 1854 the day fell decisively on a Sunday, the Sabbath, when lay miners (“Diggers”) on the Ballaarat goldfields…

Eureka Stockade Day: Australia’s 160th anniversary of democratic rebellion remembered

December 3rd is a significant date on Australia’s national calendar. Exactly 160 years ago in 1854 the day fell decisively on a Sunday, the Sabbath, when lay miners (“diggers”) on the Ballaarat goldfields made a sacrificial stand against the English colonial authority…