[Editor: This letter, regarding the Miner’s Right, and voting rights for miners, was published in The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 12 June 1855.] The elective franchise and Miners’ Right. (Per favor of the Age.) To the Mining and other License-paying residents on the … [Read more...] about The elective franchise and Miners’ Right [letter from Vincent Pike, 12 June 1855]
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Enfranchisement of the diggers [25 May 1855]
[Editor: This article, regarding the Miner’s Right, was published in The Mount Alexander Mail (CastlemaineVic.), 25 May 1855.] Enfranchisement of the diggers. Our readers will remember that in March, 1854, an act was passed by the Legislative Council, the object of which … [Read more...] about Enfranchisement of the diggers [25 May 1855]
The law of the gold fields [10 May 1855]
[Editor: This article, regarding the Gold Fields’ Commission of Enquiry and the Miner’s Right, was published in The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 10 May 1855.] The law of the gold fields. Another of the bills originating in the report of the Gold-fields Commission was … [Read more...] about The law of the gold fields [10 May 1855]
Universal suffrage [18 April 1855]
[Editor: This article, regarding the Miner’s Right, was published in The Adelaide Times (Adelaide, SA), 18 April 1855.] Universal suffrage. One of the most important recommendations urged upon the Victorian Government by the Commissioners, recently appointed to enquire … [Read more...] about Universal suffrage [18 April 1855]
Australia Day [28 January 1950]
[Editor: This article, about Australia Day, was published in The Irwin Index and Victoria District Gazette (Mingenew, WA), 28 January 1950.] Australia Day One hundred and sixty-two years ago last Thursday a British naval captain unostentatiously unfurled the Union Jack at … [Read more...] about Australia Day [28 January 1950]