2. What Does Eureka Mean?
• I found it!!
• You-ree-ka
• Used when gold has been found
3. What Was The Eureka
Stockade?
• A symbol of Australians’ unwillingness to
bow to injustice
• Unwillingness
• Bow
• Injustice
4. What Is The Eureka Story?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kry-xiVYMJc
5. The Eureka Story
• In the 1850s there were lots of miners trying
to find gold in Australia
• There were not many police officers to
govern what was happening on the goldfields
• Many ex-convicts and guards became police
officers
6. The Eureka Story
• The government decided that all miners
required a licence to mine for gold
• Licences were expensive and had to be paid
every month – even if the miners had not
found any gold yet
• Police were so busy checking mining licences
they didn’t have time to fight real criminals
7. The Eureka Story
• Many miners did not like the licencing
system or how unfair it was
• The miners tried to express their unhappiness
but nothing changed in the system
• In Ballarat the miners became very angry
when a criminal who was friendly with the
police was not charged with his crimes
8. The Eureka Story
• On December 3rd 1854, the miners’ anger
reached its highest
• A group of miners burnt down a hotel – The
Bentley’s Hotel
• These men were charged with arson
9. What Caused The Eureka
Stockade?
• Mining licences
• Low wages
• Unfair police
• Injustice
10. Focus Questions
1. What does Eureka mean?
2. In what year did the Eureka Stockade happen?
3. Where did the Eureka Stockade happen?
4. In what state is Ballarat?
5. What hotel was damaged and what happened
to it?
6. What caused The Eureka Stockade?
