The Eureka Stockade is said by many to be the birthplace of Australian democracy. But there’s much about the famous battle you may not know. Here are the hidden facts about our most storied ...

On Sunday the third of December, 1854, there was a brief but bloody battle at the Eureka mining camp where diggers had built a rough wooden stockade. 22 miners and 8 soldiers died. But Eureka came ...

It is still dark when ageing renegades and union officials gather at the site of the Eureka Stockade to solemnly remember the uprising that occurred 167 years ago today. Normally the dawn ...

While they lost the battle, they won the war in gaining more ... 160th anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion. David Caird. The Eureka Stockade was the climax of a long dispute between miners and ...

The time you take to read this newspaper today will probably be longer than the battle of the Eureka Stockade, which seems to have lasted (nobody was using a stopwatch) for about 15 minutes.

Each year, on today’s date, it was time to re-enact the Eureka Stockade. It was on this day ... The lesson was that the gold diggers lost the battle but won the war. They fought for our rights ...

The film succeeds in illustrating the intensity of the battle and the miners' fight ... pulling into focus an ideology at the heart of the Eureka Stockade that lives on: capitalism.

However, Mr Shearer emphasised one crucial point would be the requests to have the flag relocated to the Eureka Stockade centre. "If we truly want the Eureka uprising to gain national significance ...