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  • About
    • Australian Democracy
    • Key Objectives
    • Eureka Australia Committee
    • Eureka Week
  • Membership
  • Family Stories
    • Remembering John Joseph
    • Ancestor Stories >
      • Leigh Callinan
      • Maurice Hanrahan
      • Graeme McGregor
      • Margie O'Brien
      • Peter Lalor Philp
      • John Capp
  • Award
    • 2023 - Hugh De Kretser
    • 2023 - Phillip Moore
    • 2022 - STEVE BRACKS
    • 2019 - Tim Costello
    • 2018 - Adele Ferguson
    • 2017 - Patrick Dodson
    • 2016 - Phil Glendenning AM
    • 2015 - Father Frank Brennan
    • 2013 - Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E.)
    • 2011 - Dr. Anne Beggs-Sunter
    • 2010 - Margaret Rich
    • 2009 - John Molony
    • 2008 - Weston Bate
  • News & Events
    • LIBERTY! Newsletter
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    • Eureka Australia on Facebook
  • Eureka Melbourne Democracy Walking App
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  • The Diggers March

 

Eureka Democracy Award: 2008 - Weston Bate

Academic and historian
  • 1953-1976 – Lecturer in history – University of Melbourne
  • 1978-1989 – Foundation Professor of Australian Studies/Deakin University
  • Was:  President - Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Chair- Museum Advisory Board of Victoria of Ballarat
  • Historical consultant to Ballarat’s Gold Museum and Sovereign Hill Museum
  • An active, generous and passionate speaker about Eureka, his publications
  • Lucky City and Life After Gold present wonderful insights into the story of Eureka.
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2008 Eureka Democracy Award Winner: Weston Bate
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