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Back in the day on December 3rd, 1854, the Eureka Rebellion took place in Australia. The altercation pitted hundreds of gold miners against government troops as the two clashed over a fortified stockade. Before the rebellion, a gold rush in the British colony of Victoria had set the stage for a class conflict. Miners, who were disenfranchised by property rules, became the only people taxed by the colonial government when it introduced mining license fees. Tensions increased evermore when a miner named James Scobie was murdered with impunity as a judicial investigation absolved the suspect in the crime. Gold Miners responded by organizing themselves into the Ballarat Reform League, burned their licenses, and constructed a stockade under the flag of Eureka which was later assaulted by colonial troops.
As a result of the Eureka Rebellion, enfranchisement reforms increased access to parliamentary government — albeit for white males only — as taxation and violent repression of miners were reduced.
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The Eureka Rebellion
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