Eureka - The Unfinished Revolution (4 page)

Ballarat diggings in the summer of 1853-54, looking south from Black Hill towards Buninyong. Row’s Circus tent can be seen on the flat.
(Eugene von Guerard / Art Gallery of Ballarat)

Assistant-Commissioner Amos’s camp located on the Eureka. (Thomas Ham/ Rex Nan Kivell Collection/National Library of Australia)

Castlemaine diggers line up to pay their license fees. (Samuel Thomas Gill/La Trobe Picture Collection/State Library of Victoria)

A mass meeting typically concludes with diggers giving three cheers or groans for those newspapers that either support or oppose the diggers (in this case,
The Argus
and
The Herald
respectively).
(Rex Nan Kivell Collection/National Library of Australia)

Sunday outdoor service at Forrest Creek. (Samuel Thomas Gill/Rex Nan Kivell Collection/National Library of Australia)

‘I propose that this house belongs to the diggers!’ The burning down of the Eureka Hotel, 17 October 1854. (
Eureka Riot by Charles Doudiet/Art Gallery of Ballarat)

‘Bridegroom’ of the Southern Cross flag, Canadian digger Charles Ross.
(Art Gallery of Ballarat)

Robert Rede, Resident Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Goldfields at Ballarat (1854-55).

John Leslie Fitzgerald Vesey Foster, Colonial Secretary of Victoria (1853-54), (T. F.
Chuck/State Library of Victoria)

Secretary of the Ballarat Reform League, moral-force Chartist and Welshman, John Basson Humffray.
(La Trobe Picture Collection/State Library of Victoria)

Italian man of letters, Raffaello Carboni, friend of Peter Lalor and author of
The Eureka Stockade.

‘We swear by the Southern Cross . . .’ Digger swearing-in ceremony, 30 November 1854, at Bakery Hill. (F. A.
Sleap/State Library of Victoria)