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Title: Tranquility once more prevails at Ballarat
Description: After days of violence and unrest during which the Eureka Hotel was burned and diggers clashed with government forces, it was publicly believed that peace had at last returned to Ballarat.
Date: 1 December 1854
Published Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre, The Gold Rushes and Australian English: a resource for researchers, teachers and students, Australian National University, 2005, http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aus_words/gold/index.php. Details.
Rights: This material is provided by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, a joint project of the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.

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