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The Roll Up Banner with which a mob of 2,000–3,000 men rallied and attacked Chinese miners at Lambing Flat in June 1861. The banner is displayed in Lambing Flat, now known as Young. The Lambing Flat riots flag.
Blackguard Gully is a heritage-listed former Chinese mining camp and now reserve at Whiteman Avenue, Young, New South Wales, Australia.It was part of the Lambing Flat or Burragorang goldfields, and was a primary location of the anti-Chinese Lambing Flat riots of 1861.
Riots occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard Gully, Tipperary Gully, and Lambing Flat (now Young, New South Wales), in 1860–1861. [citation needed] There was ten months of unrest at Burrangong involving disputes against Chinese miners, where they were often driven off their 'digs'.
13 May – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales. [11]30 June – Lambing Flat riots of Lambing Flat (Young), New South Wales [12] 6 July – Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.
The Birth of White Australia is a 1928 Australian silent film directed by Phil K. Walsh.It is an historical drama about the settlement of white Australia, including scenes of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay, skirmishes with Australian Aborigines and the Lambing Flat riots. [4]
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The Roll Up Banner was devised during the Lambing Flat riots in 1861. White nationalists in Australia recall the Eureka Rebellion and the eventual implementation of Victoria's Chinese poll tax in 1855 as a milestone in the formation of the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act that enshrined the White Australia Policy of the 20th century.