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Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online. The Eureka rebellion, which is often referred to as the 'Eureka Stockade' is a key event in the development of Australian democracy and Australian identity, with so...
With mounting evidence and stories circulating about their seemingly miraculous ability to find people, Aboriginal trackers' abilities became legendary in the minds of white Australians. Paul Raffaele, Aboriginal tracker Teddy Egan and son. The Australi...
Tracking the Native Police (more info)
'Tracking the Native Police' is an online exhibition which tells the history of the Native Police Corps from 1837 to 1852 through some of the earliest official records held by Public Record Office Victoria. The four featured stories link to digital copies
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Commandant Dana reports to the Colonial Secretary about incidents which took place on the Ballarat goldfields during a visit by the Commissioner for Crown Lands, accompanied by the Native Police. I accompanied the Commissioner and Mr Armstrong to the Ball...
Commandant Dana reports to the Colonial Secretary about incidents which took place on the Ballarat goldfields during a visit by the Commissioner for Crown Lands, accompanied by the Native Police. Letter from Commandant Dana to Colonial Secretary,, Septemb...
> Native Police, by Gill, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880), courtesy of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. This is one of 25 lithographs in Gill's 'Australian Sketchbook ( Australian Views)'. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http:...
Letter from Commandant Dana to Colonial Secretary, 22 September 1851, 22 September 1851; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre [ Details... Letter from Commandant of the Native Police to the Colonial Secretary, 14 February 1852; Public ...
Electronic Encyclopaedia of Gold in Australia > Native Police Encampment Ballarat 1853, by Thomas Ham, courtesy of State Library of Victoria. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.net.au/objects/DEG000057....
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> The Native Police on the Ballarat Goldfields, September 1851, courtesy of Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. > Aboriginal troopers, Melbourne police, with English corporal, 1850, by William Strutt, courtesy of Parliament of Victor...
Electronic Encyclopaedia of Gold in Australia VPRS 1189/P Inward Registered Correspondence I, Colonial Secretary's Office, unit 16, folder 6, item 52/605 > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.net.au/archiv...
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Jonathan Richards has confounded such an assessment with his book, The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police (University of Queensland Press, $39.95). The Native Police were part military, part police – a 19th-century equivalent ...
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Back to featured stories/ home Home/ Cultural warning | Documents | Pursuing attackers 1843 VPRS 19/P Inward Registered Correspondence, Superintendent Port Phillip District, unit 53, item 43/2681...
The same conversation> ensued respecting the white woman> that we had with the Blacks yesterday,> and the Blankets &c shewn to them. Jany 6th We started on our Journey for the> mountains and encamped on the Banks of> Lake King. Jany 17th Encamped at the c...
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