Eureka Stockade
HE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT announced in early 1851 that gold had been discovered in Australia, near Bathurst, New South Wales, and later that year also in Victoria. It was a catalyst for great change in the new colony. The belief you could dig your own fortune attracted people from across the country and the world. Melbourne lost half its men to the goldfields, crews abandoned ships in port, shepherds deserted flocks; the cry in London, California, Germany
