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One of the aspirational statements made in the Charter lists "Political changes contemplated by the Reform League: 1. A full and fair representation 2. Manhood suffrage 3. No property qualification of Members for the Legislative Council. 4. Payment of Members 5. Short duration of Parliament." (Page 2
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The Anti-Gold Licence Association prepared a petition that was endorsed by more than 20,000 people from Bendigo and surrounding goldfields such as Castlemaine and Ballarat. La Trobe was presented with the document on 1 August 1853. As stated in the copy of the manuscript shown on the eGold web
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Additional inspiration for the League came from nationwide debate about Electoral reform: the new Victorian Legislative Council that first met on 11 July 1851, would eventually (in 1856) include in the Victorian Constitution the introduction of the secret ballot, as pioneered in Victoria by the
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Fourteen months later, the Ballarat Reform League's Charter resembled the Bendigo Petition in its demands concerning miners' rights. The documents differ in that the Petition begins with a clear statement of the problems caused by the lack of rights, whereas the Charter opens with aspirational
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Contemporary historians such as O'Lincoln and Headon and Uhr caution against the romanticism and the cult status that have frequently been attached to Eureka and its leaders. Headon and Uhr take as examples works by poets, playwrights and fiction writers, such as
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was elected secretary of the League. He urged civil disobedience to resist the government. But, when tensions boiled over on 30 November 1854, his pacifist strategy was overturned and the miners opted to use arms to fight the authorities. The miners elected
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acknowledges that "we all barrack for Ballarat, we sympathise with the miners, and see largely through their spectacles" (Baliney, 1998, p. 18.) but he says that this partiality can cause us to manipulate the story and "make history do its handsprings"
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While there certainly were many disaffected diggers who did harbour truly revolutionary ideals, for most their resistance was rooted in economic reality and a distaste for arbitrary and perverse ‘justice’. (Hocking, p. 162)
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The manifesto of the Ballarat Reform League can be seen in its original manuscript form, and in transcription, at the Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV) in Melbourne, from where it is also available online.
665:: To direct that (as the Diggers and other residents on the Gold Fields of the Colony have uniformly developed a love of law and order) the sending of an Armed Force to enforce the License Tax be discontinued. 937:
The incentives and fears promoting democracy in Australia were already high before the Eureka Stockade quickened the movement towards popular control of Victoria’s new parliament. (Baliney, 2016, p. 18)
860:: Commissioners of the Gold Fields Commission to be sacked; licences for gold diggers and storekeepers to be discontinued; the Reform League to be given premises (a tent) and administrative authority 1678: 647:: To direct that new arrivals or invalids be allowed on registering their names at the Commissioners Office fifteen clear days residence on the Gold Fields before the License be enforced 872:: censure of the disrespectful attitude of officials of the Gold Fields Commission; mistrust of politicians in Parliament; disapproval of the process establishing the Board of Enquiry 848:: the right to vote to be given to all men, parliamentary terms to be shortened, members of parliament to be paid and to be able to stand for election regardless of property ownership 532:, a Scottish miner who had recently been murdered outside Bentley's Hotel in Eureka, and for the release of three miners who had been wrongly imprisoned for burning down the hotel. 653:: To afford greater facility to Diggers and others resident on the Gold Fields who wish to engage in Agricultural Pursuits for investing their earnings in small allotments of land 911:
According to Hocking, it was not idealism but the exhaustion of Eureka's alluvial gold, amenable to their methods of deep mining, that drove the miners to desperate measures.
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Blainey, G 2016, ‘’The story of Australia’s people: the rise and rise of a new Australia’’, Viking, Penguin Random House, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, p.18.
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statements about universal political equality; and the Petition avowed loyalty to Britain, whilst the Charter openly threatened the seizure of independence.
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of 18 November 1854, that the League was "nothing more or less than the germ of Australian independence" that would "change the dynasty of this country".
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of 1917. They also note that politicians from the left as well as the right have not hesitated to mould the story to suit their ideologies.
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It has come to be known as the Ballarat Reform League Charter, but at the time of writing the document was labeled by its writers as
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on 2 December 1854 and to use weapons to defend themselves against the military force sent to quell them on 3 December 1854.
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came into being in October 1853 and was officially constituted on 11 November 1854 at a mass meeting of miners in
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1838, whose sixth point, the secret ballot, is not mentioned in the Ballarat Reform League's Charter.
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Despite these flaws, the Charter has enjoyed a glowing reputation ever since Seekamp's claim in the
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Reinforcing the point that the Ballarat Reform League was important but not seminal, Blainey adds
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to protest against the Victorian government's mining policy and administration of the goldfields.
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of Charter) These points are a re-statement of five of the six points of the British Chartists
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in 1953, for the centenerary of the rebellion, describes the main characters in the story:
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as their commander, although he had no military experience. Lalor led them to build the
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Clark, C M H 1999, "Rewriting Australian history", in Imre Salusinszky (ed.), 1999,
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In summary the Charter consists of three sections with the following components:
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The actions of the League were reported in sensational and inflammatory terms by
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Historical studies Australia and New Zealand : special Eureka supplement
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27 Nov. 1854 Resolutions passed at a Public Meeting on Bakery Hill Ballarat
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Kirkpatrick, R 2004, "Eureka and the editor: a reappraisal 150 years on",
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The story of Australia’s people: the rise and rise of a new Australia
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The most picturesque personality among the leaders was an Italian,
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The leaders of the Ballarat Reform League used the models of many
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In 1853, perhaps the most direct influence on the League was the
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On the other hand, Hocking lists the leaders of the League as:
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As shown on the web site of the Museum of Australian Democracy,
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site, at its heart were six claims for improved conditions.
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Gold Fever: a rollicking history of the Australian goldrush
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Gold Fever: a rollicking history of the Australian goldrush
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to shape their organization and prepare their petition.
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that had been formed in another Victorian goldfield,
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But the man who held the loyalty of the diggers was
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As with the Bendigo protests the previous year (the
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Index

Eureka Rebellion
Eureka Flag
Union Jack

Timeline
Military leaders
Siege
Origins
Australian gold rushes
Chartism
Revolutions of 1848
Thomas Hiscock
Victorian gold rush
The Eureka Rebellion
Anti-Gold Licence Association
Ballarat Reform League
Bendigo Petition
British army in the Eureka Rebellion
Charles La Trobe
Charles Pasley (engineer)
Edward Thonen
Eureka Flag
Eureka Stockade (fortification)
Forest Creek Monster Meeting
Fredrick Vern
John Foster (Australian politician)
Henry Christopher Wise
Henry Richard Nicholls
Henry Ross
Henry Seekamp

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