CONTENTS
Author’s Note
INTRODUCTION
The Morning After
Why Weren’t We Told?
A Coffin Trimmed with White
GETTING THERE
Eureka!
Getting Ahead
Great Expectations
The Long Goodbye
The Wild World of Water
Our Floating World
A Dirty Disagreeable Lot
Crossing the Line
Southern Stars
The Deep
(Not So Marvellous) Melbourne
Settling for Collingwood
Canvas Town
Law and Order
All the Single Ladies
The Road
This Feminine Exodus
My Gypsy Life
GETTING AHEAD
Ballarat
The Camp
Diggeresses
Lady Luck
A Tax by Any Other Name
Pop-Up Shopping
Everything That Could Be Wanted
Mates
The Servant Problem
The Marriage Game
Girls on the Grog
The Chinese Puzzle
GETTING STUCK
Winners and Losers
Raw Cold and Unfathomable Mud
Poverty Point
Getting Spliced, Getting Licked
Land Locked
British Justice
Licence Hunters
Enter Ellen Young
Here Come the Hothams
Put Away
A Shameful Spectacle
A Licence to Swill
The Eureka Hotel
Liquid Gold
The Adelphi Theatre
GETTING EVEN
Spring
Murder Most Foul
A Busy Week
Famous Last Words
An Offended People
Scot Free
House of the Rising Diggers
It Burned Like Paper
Mosh Pit
The Blame Game
Ellen vs Joe
Tongues Wag
Lying in a State of Stupidity
The Stranger
Yankee HQ
A Cunning Plan?
We, the People
No Admission
Courtroom 1
Courtroom 2
The Diggers ‘Demand’ and Hotham Cracks It
GETTING TOGETHER
Thanksgiving
A Flag of One’s Own
Bringing the Matter to a Crisis
The First Shots
The Diggers Rally
A Council of War for Defence
Drawing the Line
Swearing an Oath
A Spy and Some Wet Soldiers
A Late-Night Deputation
1 December—Friday
2 December—Saturday
Night of a Full Moon
3 December—Bloody Sunday
Nightmare on Eureka Street
Where Can I Hide?
The Final Indignity
Burn Baby Burn
Ungovernable Excitement
The Morning After (Reprise)
CONCLUSION
Business as Usual
Hope
The Miner’s Right
The Youngest Australian
Acknowledgments
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