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- The Ballarat Reform League came into being in October 1853 and was officially constituted on 11 November 1854 at a mass meeting of miners in Ballarat, Victoria to protest against the Victorian government's mining policy and administration of the goldfields.
- We want licence fees abolished, voting rights given...
- The people who started the fire were arrested. Later an elected group of miners asked new Victorian Governor Charles Hotham to release the imprisoned men but Hotham refused. Instead the governor sent 150 British soldiers to Ballarat to strengthen the numbers of police and soldiers already stationed there and another licence hunt was issued.
- no, the men will not be released for the burning of the Eureka hotel. Another licence hunt will be issued and more soldiers sent.
- On 30 November 1854 miners from Ballarat in Victoria swore an oath to the Southern Cross flag at Bakery Hill and built a stockade at the nearby Eureka diggings. They were unhappy with the way the colonial government had been running the goldfields and burnt their licences.
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