Australiana
The Red Ribbon Rebellion
A Decade of Dissent | The Bendigo Petition

128 pp, colour throughout pb, with slip-cover
[New Chum Press 2001]

Traces the history of dissent on the Victorian goldfields from the Great Meeting of Diggers in Castlemaine in 1851, the Red Ribbon Rebellion in Bendigo in August 1853 to the battle at the Eureka Stockade in December 1854.

Contains a complete transcription of the names of the 7,000 diggers who signed the Bendigo Petition in 1853, accompanied by engravings, paintings and photographs of the Bendigo diggings.