What Happened at
the Eureka Stockade?

In 1854 a handful of miners in the Victorian goldfields — just about 150 of them, out of some 500 under the leadership of one Peter Lalor, and flying the Flag of the Southern Cross — were attacked by superior government soldiers and vanquished. As many as 30 of the miners died.

The Eureka Stockade, where the miners tried to stand their ground against an unjust officialdom, is a symbol of Australians' unwillingness to bow to perceived injustice.

• The events at the Eureka Stockade are dramatised nightly at nearby Sovereign Hill.
  
  
• The Eureka Centre is located just south of the main route into Ballarat from Melbourne, on the corner of Eureka and Rodier Sts in East Ballarat.

Photo: Eureka Centre, East Ballarat © Tourism Victoria