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Battle of the Eureka Stockade
Episode 287

Battle of the Eureka Stockade

Labor History Today

January 12, 202534m 49s

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Show Notes

On this week’s Labor History Today: Battle of the Eureka Stockade. Australia’s history closely tracks American history; the subjugation of indigenous people is the most obvious parallel, and the battles for basic worker rights is another. On today’s show -- which comes to us from Stick Together, Australia's only national radio show focusing on industrial, social and workplace issues -- the Battle of the Eureka Stockade, the first major event of post-colonial Australia, where in 1854, during the Victorian gold rush, the army and police violently attacked miners – killing dozens -- for daring to call for the end of mining licenses and universal suffrage.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: Cox’s Army marches on the nation’s Capitol.

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