Difference between revisions of "Commemoration"

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Commemoration, Soldiers Guard of Honour, Ballarat Old Cemetery, 1988. Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection

Commemoration, Ballarat Old Cemetery, 1988. Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection

Commemoration, Madden, O'Neil and Dunlop Banners, Ballarat Old Cemetery, 1988. Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection

Eureka Re-enactment, Ballarat Historical Society

‘When peace shall lie once more regained, and there shall be time for deliberate judgement, the citizens will reckon with the Government. Meantime, they will not pledge themselves to support it; and they will not organize themselves into bodies for the purpose of filling the place of that expensive military force, which should never have been sent out of Melbourne. [We] do not sympathise with revolt; but neither do [we] sympathise with injustice and coercion. [We] will not fight for the diggers nor will [we] fight for the Government’. ^[1]

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+[[File:Eureka Commem Madden 1 wiki.jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Commemoration, Soldiers Guard of Honour, Ballarat Old Cemetery'', 1988. Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection]]
+[[File:Eureka Commem Madden 2 wiki.jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Commemoration, Ballarat Old Cemetery'', 1988. Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection]]
+[[File:Eureka Commem Madden 11 wiki.jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Commemoration, Madden, O'Neil and Dunlop Banners, Ballarat Old Cemetery'', 1988. Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection]]
+[[File:Eureka reenactment2 copy.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Eureka Re-enactment, Ballarat Historical Society]]
+[[File:Eureka reenactment copy.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Eureka Re-enactment, Ballarat Historical Society]]
+‘When peace shall lie once more regained, and there shall be time for deliberate judgement, the citizens will reckon with the Government. Meantime, they will not pledge themselves to support it; and they will not organize themselves into bodies for the purpose of filling the place of that expensive military force, which should never have been sent out of Melbourne. [We] do not sympathise with revolt; but neither do [we] sympathise with injustice and coercion. [We] will not fight for the diggers nor will [we] fight for the Government’. <ref>Editorial from ''The Age'', 5 December 1855</ref>
+----
 [[Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project]]
-[[Captain Wise Memorial]], Leek Wooton, UK
+Captain [[Henry Wise]] Memorial, Leek Wooton, UK
 [[Chewton]]
-[[Diggers Grave]], Ballarat Old Cemetery
+[[Diggers Memorial]], Ballaarat Old Cemetery
-[[Eureka 50]]
-[[Eureka 100]]
+[[Eureka Diorama]]
-[[Eureka 150]]
+[[Eureka Graves]]
 [[Eureka Memorial Park Association]]
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 [[Heritage Victoria Registered Sites]]
-[[Soldiers Monument]], Ballarat Old Cemetery
+[[Reclaim the Radical Spirit of Eureka]]
+[[Soldiers' Memorial]], Ballaarat Old Cemetery
+[[Eureka 1, 1855]]
+[[Eureka 2, 1856]]
+[[Eureka 3, 1857]]
+[[Eureka 4, 1858]]
+[[Eureka 5, 1859]]
+[[Eureka 6, 1860]]
+[[Eureka 7, 1861]]
+[[Eureka 9, 1863]]
+[[Eureka 10, 1864]]
+[[Eureka 13, 1867]]
+[[Eureka 20, 1874]]
+[[Eureka 23, 1877]]
+[[Eureka 25, 1879]]
+[[Eureka 28, 1882]]
+[[Eureka 30, 1884]]
+[[Eureka 32, 1886]]
+[[Eureka 33, 1887]]
+[[Eureka 34, 1888]]
+[[Eureka 35, 1889]]
+[[Eureka 36, 1890]]
+[[Eureka 37, 1891]]
+[[Eureka 39, 1893]]
+[[Eureka 40, 1894]]
+[[File:Eureka Veterans-wiki2.jpg|800px|thumb|right|''Eureka Veterans at the Monument, 1904''. Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection]]
+[[Eureka 42, 1896]]
+[[Eureka 44, 1898]]
+[[Eureka 46, 1900]]
+[[Eureka 48, 1902]]
+[[Eureka 49, 1903]]
+[[Eureka 50, 1904]]
+[[Eureka 51, 1905]]
+[[Eureka 54, 1908]]
+[[Eureka 57, 1911]]
+[[Eureka 58, 1912]]
+[[Eureka 59, 1913]]
+[[Eureka 60, 1914]]
+[[Eureka 61, 1915]]
+[[Eureka 62, 1916]]
+[[Eureka 63, 1917]]
+[[Eureka 66, 1920]]
+[[Eureka 68, 1922]]
+[[Eureka 70, 1924]]
+[[Eureka 73, 1927]]
+[[Eureka 80, 1934]]
+[[Eureka 82, 1936]]
+[[Eureka 84, 1938]]
+[[Eureka 88, 1942]]
+[[Eureka 89, 1943]]
+[[Eureka 92, 1946]]
+[[Eureka 96, 1950]]
+[[Eureka  100, 1954]]
+[[Eureka 107, 1961]]
+[[Eureka 110, 1964]]
+[[Eureka 114, 1968]]
+[[Eureka 115, 1969]]
+[[Eureka 116, 1970]]
+[[Eureka 118, 1972]]
+[[Eureka 125, 1979]]
+[[Eureka 129, 1983]]
+[[Eureka 134, 1988]]
+[[Eureka 140, 1994]]
+[[Eureka 144, 1998]]
-[[Eureka Dawn Oration]], Presented
+[[Eureka 145, 1999]]
-by Dorothy Wickham, 6 am, Eureka Stockade Memorial, Ballarat, Sunday 4 December 2005
-years ago the people of Eureka fought for their democratic rights and freedoms. They objected to the unjust administration of the goldfields such as the tax on work before any work was even undertaken. I would like to take this opportunity today to acknowledge the part of Henry Seekamp, the editor and owner of The Ballarat Times, who married the actress Clara du Val in 1854 at Ballarat.
-Seekamp wrote that the disturbances at Eureka were only the trunk of the elephant, meaning of course, that there was much more under the surface than was visible. The editorials in his paper were full of energetic criticisms. He was charged and gaoled for Seditious Libel the day after the Eureka battle.
+[[Eureka 146, 2000]]
-Sedition laws, defunct for nearly half a century, have recently been brought to our attention when proposed changes were included in the Anti-Terrorism Bill introduced on 3 November this year.
+[[Eureka 147, 2001]]
-After pressure from backbenchers and factions of the public such as journalists, intellectuals and artists, Attorney General Phillip Ruddock assured the House that he would ‘undertake to conduct a review of the sedition offences’.
+[[Eureka 149, 2003]]
-Under current Australian law it is an offence to engage in Seditious Intention, Enterprises, or Words. The current law specifies that any person who, with the intention of causing violence or creating public disorder or a public disturbance, writes, prints, utters or publishes any seditious words, shall be guilty of an indictable offence punishable by imprisonment for 3 years.
+[[Eureka 150]], 2004
-The newly proposed laws reiterate the current sedition laws. They also increase penalties, introduce concepts such as recklessness, and extend the laws to cover all foreign citizens.
+[[Eureka 151, 2005]]
-The sedition laws were exercised during Eureka. One of the earliest prosecutions in Australia for sedition was the action taken by the Government against Henry Seekamp here in Ballarat 151 years ago. He was arrested on 4 December at the offices of his newspaper on charges of Seditious Libel. The newspaper carried the caption that the editor had been arrested.
+[[Eureka Dawn Oration]], Sunday 4 December 2005
-Seekamp was a slight, sickly man who fought with the pen rather than the sword. His editorials were fiery and contentious, filled with the sentiments of the English Chartists such as J R Stephens or Thomas Carlyle.
+[[Eureka 2007]]
-J B Humffray and Henry Holyoake, 2 well-known Eureka identities, shared the same Chartist ideals as Seekamp.
+[[Eureka 2008]]
-These sentiments were echoed in the Charter of the Ballarat Reform League. They welled up at the Monster Meetings held on the 11th and 29th November just before Eureka battle.
+[[Eureka 2009]]
-Nearly half the Diggings attended these meetings. The Monster Meetings, it was reported attracted 10,000 people. There were only 20,000 on the diggings, so that, in today’s context, of Ballarat’s population of around 80,000, that would mean a rally of 40,000 people – or half the population. When you consider the large rallies held recently about the new industrial relations laws, where around 5,000 attended, you can imagine the welling up of feelings and emotions at the Monster Meetings associated with Eureka.
+[[Eureka 156, 2010]]
-I believe these meetings included men, women and children. The causes being fought for were pertinent to all family members. The Ballarat Reform League, in essence, sought a democratic and egalitarian society. It sought a reduction in licence fees, a say in the parliament, and a just administration of the goldfields, as well as other reforms, for the everyday man, woman and child.
+[[Eureka 159, 2013]]
-These points were echoed in Seekamp’s editorials in The Ballarat Times. He passionately condemned the administration of the Ballarat goldfields and glorified the miners’ opposition. The Resident Commissioner of the Goldfields Robert Rede had sent a copy of The Ballarat Times to the Chief Commissioner in Melbourne writing:
+[[Eureka 160, 2014]]
-‘I enclose you a copy of The Ballarat Times which points to Wednesday as a day on which something will occur. I request that the leading article may be laid before the Attorney General for his opinion as it appears to me highly seditious and under existing circumstances, such language should be stopped if possible’.
+[[Eureka 161, 2015]]
-The battle occurred here, on this spot, not long after Rede’s protesting letter.
+[[Eureka 162, 2016]]
-After Eureka around 120 men were arrested and 13 of these were charged with High Treason. Only Seekamp was charged with Sedition. He was convicted of Seditious Libel on 23 January 1855 and sentenced to 6 months gaol. It is the view of many that had the 13 others who were charged with High Treason been charged with Sedition they too would have served a gaol sentence like Seekamp.
-Clara Seekamp ran the paper in her husband’s absence. She was the first female editor in Australia and possibly the first in the world. Her editorial style remained steadfast and continued the ideas of the Ballarat Reform League.
+[[Eureka 163, 2017]]
-Susan Kruss has written a poem about Clara Seekamp. She has vocalised what Clara’s thoughts at the time of Eureka may have been. I would like to share an excerpt with you.
+[[Eureka 164, 2018]]
-I got such a shock     to see bodies
+[[Eureka 168, 2022]]
-not acting but real     dead eyes
-looking up so fixedly
-I had not imagined it being so awful
-wives sweethearts children cried over them
-Henry began the Stockade edition
-We knew they’d arrest him for saying
-that diggers have rights     next morning
-they seized him      and took him away
-I’m sure I’ll never forget what I saw
-But I’ll see them right yet     I’ll take on
-being editor just as Henry would do     I will
-mention ‘sedition’ – the charge laid against him-
-‘liberty’ and ‘oppression’ will be in each edition
-the voice of the people cannot be silenced
-by silencing one     for the press is the voice
-of the people and will not be silenced while I can
-go on     though I’m sure there’ll be those
-shocked by a woman as editor who’ll oppose
-every word that I write with some scorn
-I see in The Argus this morning they hope that
-my husband will soon be released and relieve
-the goldfields of Ballarat from the dangerous
-influence of a free press petticoat government
-The Argus expressed this sentiment on 31 January 1855 writing that it hoped that a lenient sentence would be given to Mr Seekamp to enable his quick return ‘to his editorial duties’. Clara’s editorials were described by The Argus on at least one occasion, as outspoken, startling in tone, and liberal and energetic in their use of words such as ‘sedition’, ‘liberty’ and ‘oppression’.
-The people at Eureka 151 years ago fought for equality, liberty and freedom. These are ideals that should never be eroded. As a tribute to the people of Eureka we should always be vigilant to ensure for everyone the right to freedom of speech.
+==References==
+<references />
-Long Live the Spirit of Eureka!
+==External links==
+http://prov.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/eureka-on-trial/aftermath
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