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Eureka rebellion brought to life
the diggers on the Victorian goldfields raised the Eureka flag and launched their rebellion against ... Alex Salmon Eureka: An Unfinished Revolution Peter FitzSimons William Heinsmann Press, 2012 鈥淎nd ... Raffaello Carboni at the Eureka Stockade, Bakery Hill, on November 29 in 1854. With these words, Carboni and ...
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Eureka Flag ruling a win for building union
ideological culture wars". He said the Eureka Flag commemorated the 1854 rebellion at the Eureka Stockade ... Workers & unions Jim McIlroy Eureka flag Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy ... Commission (FWC) has ruled that Eureka Flags and other union banners can be flown from cranes on building ...
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Palm Sunday March for Peace, Justice and Climate
No Nuclear Subs SA Extinction Rebellion South Australia Actions, protests & rallies Kaurna ... Extinction Rebellion SA, Adelaide Vigil for Manus and Nauru, Independent & Peaceful Australia Network ... (IPAN) SA, Spirit of Eureka. Imperialism & war Mukata (Hindmarsh Square) Adelaide SA 5000 Australia ...
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The spirit of Eureka and Australia鈥檚 working-class struggles
class and our unions. Indeed, the Eureka rebellion is the spiritual birthplace of Australia鈥檚 union ... their rights and liberties, for justice and a fair go, the example of the Eureka rebellion will be ... Workers & unions Dirk van Dalen Eureka Stockade Eureka flag Naarm/Melbourne This month we ...
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In the spirit of Eureka
Sue Bull The Eureka Stockade at Ballarat on December 3, 1854, has become the most celebrated ... rebellion in Australian history. Anyone who considers themselves as progressive sees it as a decisive event ... in the development of democracy within this country. But both the event and the Eureka flag have been ...
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Eureka the Brave
Dean Mighell I've been attending the Eureka celebrations in Ballarat for many years. ... that two of its members, Fintan Lalor and Glenn Withers, are direct descendants of the Eureka rebels. ... Fintan is the great-great-grandson of Eureka leader Peter Lalor. He's named after James Fintan ...
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Why celebrate Eureka?
outbreaks. Each of these had its impact on colonial rule, but it was the rebellion at the Eureka gold strike ... allegiance to the British Crown. In 1856, two years after the Eureka rebellion, one such constitution was ... people from the real causes of their misery. But, despite these defeats, the Eureka rebellion and its ...
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Trashing Democratic Rights in Australia: Q&A with Bernard Collaery and Greg Barns
Spirit of Eureka Conferences & public forums Online Since 2001, over 100 anti-democratic & ... destroying the people鈥檚 hard-won and deeply valued democratic and civil rights fought for since the Eureka ... Rebellion in 1854. But these attacks on our rights will not stop us from fighting for our livelihood, the ...
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The bloody truth about the British Empire
Rum Rebellion and the 1854 Eureka stockade in Colonial Australia, the Boer resistance in South Africa ... 1791 and in 1798 staged a rebellion against British rule. Further unsuccessful revolts were staged in ... rebellion in Sydney in 1804. Tragically, the Irish, along with Scottish peasant farmers driven off their ...
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'Stand truly by each other'
REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY To Truly Stand by Each Other: The Eureka Rebellion and the Continuing ... many other aspects of the Eureka rebellion and its aftermath, in a clear and easily readable manner. ... Forum. The Eureka rebellion belongs to this hidden history of struggle from below, a history that can ...
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10 new political albums worth a listen: February 2015
started for 13 diggers on charges of high treason after the Eureka Rebellion, in which goldminers revolted ... rebellion and union strength. http://bit.ly/18h6zqQ david_rovics_song_for_eureka_stockade 10. THEY MIGHT BE ... a potted history of the whole rebellion on his 2010 album Ten Thousand Miles Away, which has just been ...
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Anti-lockdown rallies: far-right capitalises on inadequate pandemic support
right, people flying the Eureka flag, people who don鈥檛 think COVID-19 is real (and other conspiracy ... the inner city in a confused and random act of rebellion,鈥 he said. The crowd was overwhelmingly ...
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Scoop: Hanson, Ruddock same person
came to Australia they organised the Eureka rebellion. Everyone of Irish descent should be sent back ...
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The problem with taking politics out of climate change
editor and honorary fellow at Victoria University. Reprinted with permission from the author and Eureka ... change What kind of rebellion will it take to save humanity from extinction? Analysis ...
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Regional TAFEs front fight against Victoria's cuts
as the Eureka Rebellion: 'that it is the inalienable right of every citizen to have a voice in ...
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Australian socialist movement's rich heritage
working-class movement for democratic rights) and Irish republicanism. These influenced the Eureka Stockade ... rebellion at Ballarat in 1854, which was triggered by the imposition of fees for gold prospecting licences ... by the Victorian colonial government. McIlroy notes that the Eureka Stockade was "a popular ...
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Organising against racism
Parliament House. The display at the Constitutional Museum promotes the Eureka rebellion as part of the ...
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Can the union left build greater unity?
and history of working class struggle is indispensable. From the 1854 Eureka Rebellion through to the ... Shirley Winton of the Spirit of Eureka (Melbourne), and Susan Price, Socialist Alliance national trade ...
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Social democracy's past and present dissected in new book
nationalism and the influence of the 1848 revolutions, expressed in the Eureka rebellion of 1854. The union ...
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Unions and the shorter working week
power of the working class was strengthened. The Eureka rebellion opened up a period of general ...