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The Eureka Rebellion

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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