Peter Lalor      by Milovale and Jake.

Peter Lalor was born in 1827 and died in 1889. He was  famous for  being the leader of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat. The miners were upset with the Victorian Government because they had to pay a lot of money each month for a licence to search  for gold. 

They had no one to stand up for them in Parliament. Peter Lalor  was the leader of the gold miners . They burnt their licences, built a stockade, and put up a blue flag with the Southern Cross on it.  

    

 
 Thirty miners were killed as well as six soldiers. In 1955 the Government changed the cost of a licence to 1 pound a year. It also allowed the miners to  vote. Some leaders  of the miners, such as Peter Lalor entered Parliament.