How fitting that the clarion call to liberate Victorians from the lunacy of lockdown came forth from Miner’s Rest in Ballarat, home of the Eureka Stockade. It is a sad reflection on the paucity of instruction in Australian history, that few connected Zoe Buhler’s Facebook post to fight for freedom from lockdown with the struggle of courageous miners, 166 years earlier, to defend their ‘rights and liberties’ against the rapacious tax of a tyrannical Victorian government and its brutal constables.
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