2019 $1 Eureka Stockade PNC

The Eureka Stockade, Australia's only armed civil uprising, represented an important step towards the formation of our democratic system of government. On 30 November 1854, miners from the Victorian town of Ballarat, disgruntled with the officious and corrupt goldfields administration, swore allegiance to the Southern Cross flag at Bakery Hill and built a stockade at the nearby Eureka diggings. As a result of the rebellion, the goldfields won the right to parliamentary representation and rebel leader Peter Lalor was elected to represent Ballarat in the Legislative Council.