Only once in our history have Australians stood under opposing flags and faced each other on a field of battle. The time was 1854, and the place was the Ballarat goldfields in the new colony of Victoria. Over the last 150 years, the story of the Eureka Stockade has become one of Australia’s most important legends. Was it just a riot … or a revolution? Some say Eureka was the birthplace of Australian democracy – certainly it was a defining moment in our history. Perhaps it was a battle between rationalism and romanticism, constitutional reform versus revolution. While debate about Eureka will go on, most would agree about one thing - that Eureka defined how we would resolve our differences, and in that sense, what sort of society we would become.

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