5/6's on the Lyndhurst Gold Fields

On the Gold Fields

Gold was found in the area of the “the Lambing flat” in NSW, Australia in 1851. The amazing find attracted thousands of miners or “Diggers” from around the world to excavate or find a fortune. About 10 percent of the diggers were Chinese, around 7 were from America and the rest is of the British or of convicts.

Some time has passed and most diggers were in central Victoria, and at the time the Victorian national government was at the edge of bankruptcy and started assigning trooper to confiscate as many things as possible to sustain the government and the troopers themselves.

At this time the diggers are very annoyed. So they started rebellions , riots and stockades. One of which is “the eureka stockade” (no points for guessing why), which brutally ended in a bloody battle killing 22 diggers and 8 troopers. Another thing this stockade is for the burning of thousands of licenses and the creation of the eureka flag.

Karch 5/6

A Diary of a Convict: 16th July 1800

Dear Diary,

This is the first day I am working as a convict for the rest of my years. I'm quite young to work for the government. I have never worked hard like this before. It's really hard. It's like the Australian Government is torturing their own people's lives.

I do really care about my parents and my family. I'm desperate to know about them. I remember been a a little kid in the village running with the wooly sheep around the dark green pasture field was my favourite. I could never forget the time I always rode Billy carts around the village with my little sister and my little brother, helping my mum cook delicious food and lighting fireworks on the bonfire.

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