Now I did as well, but over dinner I spoke to a local historian and told me what is apparently a glaringly obvious possibility; there wasn't any Chinese at Eureka, because they hadn't yet arrived in Ballarat in large numbers (Bendigo was a different story apparently, and a variant of the Eureka flag flew in New South Wales).
According to one tract there were approximately 2000 Chinese in Victoria in early 1854, of which a number would have had to been at Ballarat (the Ballarat Chinese population apparently grew to around 10,000 by the mid-1850s). Despite their absence at the Stockade itself, it is noteworthy that the movement never raised any anti-Chinese demands., even though in the Royal Commission that followed anti-Chinese sentiments were incorporated.
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Date: 2012-12-04 11:04 pm (UTC)According to one tract there were approximately 2000 Chinese in Victoria in early 1854, of which a number would have had to been at Ballarat (the Ballarat Chinese population apparently grew to around 10,000 by the mid-1850s). Despite their absence at the Stockade itself, , even though in the Royal Commission that followed anti-Chinese sentiments were incorporated.