The creation story of the Wathaurung/Wadawurrung Nation was the first story of the Southern Cross before the Eureka flag Leading up to and during the 1850s era known as the Eureka stockade ...

It was a protest borne of the failed expectations of the government, and a potent omen of the democratic spirit under duress, heralded with roughly written words on placards, and not quite the Eureka ...

The Eureka Stockade was a civilian revolt against ... as the leader of the Stockade and how the diggers used the Southern Cross flag.