Exit Gallipoli, enter Eureka

“Eureka, The Unfinished Revolution”, by journalist and commentator, Peter Fitzsimons, will be made into a television series in early 2014.  “The time is coming when Eureka will be acknowledged as the great Australian story” says Fitzsimons.  The book tells the story of the Eureka Stockade of 1854, when the Irish-led goldminers of the Victorian goldfields rebelled against the British colonial authorities.  Books about women’s role in the uprising have been written by Laurel Johnson, “Women of Eureka”, portraits of 23 women who took part and by Clare Wright whose “Sex, Power and the Pursuit of Freedom on the Victorian frontier”: the perspective of the 5,000 women on the Ballarat goldfields, will be published by Text in 2013.  Robyn Annear from Castlemaine is the author of “Fly a Rebel Flag: the Eureka  Stockade” published in 2004.  For younger readers, it was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Young People’s History Prize the same year.