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Riot looks like revolution
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In a despatch to Earl Grey late in 1854, Governor Hotham justified his hard-line reaction to the events that led to the Eureka Stockade.

Date
20 December 1854
Published Source
Further Papers Relative to the Recent Discovery of Gold in Australia, British Parliamentary Papers, 1855. Details

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… by the most energetic measures order must be restored, and property maintained: a riot was rapidly growing into a revolution … Within another month, the commission now visiting the gold fields will have made their report, and by that I hope to be able to abide: but so long as a law, however obnoxious and unpopular it may be, remains in force, obedience must be rendered or government is at an end.

Created: 24 August 2006