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…
That Chinese cemetery in Ballaarat is fake. It’s empty. All the dead Chinese were shipped back to their celestial homeland in Canton. They had no business invading Ballaarat’s gold fields anyway. No-one wanted them. Dan Andrews of the Foreign Labor…
Because writs for the Federal election have been issued today, all processing of all outstanding party logo applications, has ceased at the Australian Electoral Commission. “..someone’s got to stop the bastards!” Today, another organisation – Eureka’s Children – filed…
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…
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…