A Hop Through Australia's History |
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1854 - The Eureka Stockade
Eighteen fifties, Ballarat.
Thirty thousand miners, mad.
Licence hunters virulent.
Blame's on Hotham's Government.
Chartist rebels stir the crowd.
Peter Lalor's very loud.
Wednesday burn down taverner.
Thursday challenge Governor.
Friday in self-defence
Miners build a paling fence.
Rebels behind parados
Proudly raise the Southern Cross.
Their defence is passionate
Against gun and bayonet.
Sunday morning. Troops arrive.
Miners murdered. Twenty-five.
Hotham Britain won't endorse.
Goldminers become a force.
After some brief punishment,
Rebels join establishment.
Peter Lalor escapee,
Soon enough becomes M.P.
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