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before eureka stockade
Eureka Stockade. The Eureka Stockade was caused by a disagreement over what gold miners felt were unfair laws and policing of their work by government. Miners were unable to claim the land on which they worked, and so risked being relocated at a moment's notice. -
Eureka Stockade
The Battle of the Eureka Stockade, by which the disobedience is famously known, was battled amongst mineworkers and the pioneer strengths of Australia on the 3rd of December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure raised by excavators amid the contention. -
Licenses and fees
they started forcing each gold digger to purchase a license (also known as a miner's right). The government could generate salary to watch the goldfields. The government made each digger pay one pound, ten shillings every month for the license to be able to dig they were hoping that it would force some people back to the cities. Diggers sold their belongings and if they are desperate even their horses to pay for the license to dig.
