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IT WAS a sweltering summerās day and the front page of Brisbaneās major newspaper was on fire with reports of crime and violence.
The Russian city of Sevastopol was falling to the British in the Crimean War but what really startled the 50,000 people who lived around Moreton Bay was the news that more than 60 people had been shot or stabbed to death on the Victorian goldfields at Ballarat.
Police had been called in. That was the problem. The police did most of the killing.
On this week in 1854, Brisbane was still a remote outpost in the colony of New South Wales.
But its news service was state of the art with the weekly Moreton Bay Courier, the forerunner of this newspaper and The Courier-Mail.
In an era before the internet, before computers, before typewriters and before an extensive telegraph system, Australian journalism rose to great heights in its coverage of the massacre at the Eureka stockade.
It was a heroic rebellion the American writer Mark Twain called āthe finest thing in Australian history ā¦ a revolution ā small in size, but great politically ā¦ a strike for liberty, a struggle for a principle, a stand against injustice and oppressionā.
Category: | The Courier Mail
That whole period was jacked up.
The Russian city of Sevastopol was falling to the British in the Crimean War but what really startled the 50,000 people who lived around Moreton Bay was the news that more than 60 people had been shot or stabbed to death on the Victorian goldfields at Ballarat.
Police had been called in. That was the problem. The police did most of the killing.
On this week in 1854, Brisbane was still a remote outpost in the colony of New South Wales.
But its news service was state of the art with the weekly Moreton Bay Courier, the forerunner of this newspaper and The Courier-Mail.
In an era before the internet, before computers, before typewriters and before an extensive telegraph system, Australian journalism rose to great heights in its coverage of the massacre at the Eureka stockade.
It was a heroic rebellion the American writer Mark Twain called āthe finest thing in Australian history ā¦ a revolution ā small in size, but great politically ā¦ a strike for liberty, a struggle for a principle, a stand against injustice and oppressionā.
Category: | The Courier Mail
That whole period was jacked up.
