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By Peter FitzSimons
The Eureka Stockade ... In 1854, Victorian miners fought a dangerous conflict below the flag of the Southern move on the Eureka Stockade. although short and doomed to fail, the conflict is legend in either our heritage and within the Australian brain. In his inimitable variety, Peter FitzSimons brings to existence Australian legends on either side of the rebellion.
summary: The Eureka Stockade ... In 1854, Victorian miners fought a dangerous conflict below the flag of the Southern move on the Eureka Stockade. although short and doomed to fail, the conflict is legend in either our historical past and within the Australian brain. In his inimitable sort, Peter FitzSimons brings to existence Australian legends on either side of the uprising
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In the famed Battle of Vinegar Hill on 21 June of that year, some 20,000 of them had clashed with the same number of heavily armed British troops at a place called Vinegar Hill in County Wexford, Ireland, and acquitted themselves superbly well. True, the rebels lost the battle, but the way they had wielded their mere pikes against the artillery and rifles of the occupiers would gladden Irish hearts for generations to come. In fact, and this was the point, Australia had its own mini-version of just such an uprising, led by some of the veterans of that campaign - and using ‘Vinegar Hill’ for a password - with plans for 200 convicts at Castle Hill to meet up with around 1000 supporters from the Hawkesbury and march on Sydney to gain their freedom.
31 Though La Trobe set out from the first to build such institutions, the numbers of people who continued to arrive, seeking numerous flocks, herds, costly acres and all the rest, continued to swell … There were soon so many squatters and the Port Phillip District was becoming so important that only six years after Batman had arrived, the Legislative Council of New South Wales was expanded so that six of 36 members could represent the southern settlement. Of course, you had to be a very wealthy landowner to be such a representative, because no person of even moderate means could afford the time and expense of travelling regularly to Sydney - only to be outvoted 30-six on most matters that would advantage Sydney as opposed to Port Phillip and its environs - but it was a start.
Both Mark Latham and Gerard Henderson were useful and knowledgeable sounding boards on the political angles of the story, and I thank them. Way back when I wrote my first book in 1990, Basking in Beirut, my dear friend at The Sydney Morning Herald, Harriet Veitch, gave me wise counsel on every part of it and did the preliminary editing. Well, now 22 years and 25 books later, she still is, and I value more than ever her input into all things to do with the form and texture of this book. Similarly, I met my long-time researcher Sonja Goernitz at the Sydney Writers’ Festival seven years ago, and when I found she was German-born I thought I could probably use her talents for, perhaps, a day or two as I researched and wrote Tobruk.