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Ballarat (băl`ərăt`), city (1991 pop. 64,980), Victoria, SE Australia. It is an industrial center; clothing, food products, paper, brick and tile, and other goods are made. The city flourished during the gold rush (1860s), then declined. It was the site of the Eureka Stockade uprising (1854), an armed insurrection by gold miners who resented licence fees. The site now contains a historical park and a memorial to commemorate the event. Ballarat a town in SE Australia, in S central Victoria: originally the centre of a gold-mining region. Pop.: 72 999 (2001) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was in the brave old days of Ballarat and Bendigo, when ship after ship went out black with passengers and deep with stores, to bounce home with a bale or two of wool, and hardly hands enough to reef topsails in a gale. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak. I have seen something of the sort on the side of a hill near Ballarat, where the prospectors had been at work. |
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