There is no controversy about the Eureka Flag. It is singularly an icon of Australian nationalism since 1854, symbolic of Australian national identity, Australian sovereign independence and of Australian individual freedoms. The Banner of the Ballaarat Reform League of Diggers Upon the…
Sunday, December 3rd marks 163 years since the digger uprising by the gold miners at Ballaarat against the colonial authority of the British Empire in 1854. This brave stand taken by the miners was, as Henry Lawson articulated, a courageous expression of…
Dr Jim Saleam: “I read this thoughtful commentary on the evolution of the historical symbolism of Eureka.” | (Contributed by James Hillman) “As a nationalist, I feel moved to write a few lines on the faux “scandal” concocted by the bourgeois media…
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…
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…
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…
