# Ballarat Reform League

> Ballarat Reform League Inc places plaques and monuments across the Victorian goldfields to mark sites of significant actions that culminated in the formation of the Ballarat Reform League in 1854 and the Eureka battle.

Key facts:

- Business name: Ballarat Reform League
- Email: ballaratreformleague@gmail.com
- Last updated: 2026-10-30

## Monuments and contact

- [Monuments](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/): Explore Ballarat Reform League's monuments to discover historic sites and memorials that honour our rich legacy
- [Contact](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/contact/): Provides contact details for the Ballarat Reform League and acknowledges the Vera Moore Foundation

## Charter and flag

- [BRL Charter](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/brl-charter/): The charter was written by members of the Ballarat Reform League in 1854. It contains their passionate demands for more people in the colony of Victoria to…
- [Eureka Flag](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/eureka-flag/): The flag of the Ballaarat Reform League, the Southern Cross, now more commonly known as the Eureka flag, was first flown at a Monster Meeting of around 12,000…

## Monuments

- [Bakery Hill](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/bakery-hill/): Site of large protest meetings, including the formation of the Ballarat Reform League
- [Ballarat](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/ballarat/): Describes the attack on the Eureka Stockade and the worldwide reporting that followed
- [Beechworth](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/beechworth/): Site of a diggers' meeting on 2 April 1853 demanding representation and rights
- [Bendigo](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/bendigo/): Describes the Bendigo Goldfields Petition and the Red Ribbon Agitation of 1853
- [Buninyong](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/buninyong/): Records the first goldfields protest meeting against the new licence fee in August 1851
- [Castlemaine](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/castlemaine/): Describes the 1853 protest at Agitation Hill after an unfounded police raid, now the site of Christ Church
- [Chewton](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/chewton/): Describes the Monster Meeting of December 1851 that forced the government to reverse a doubled licence fee
- [Creswick](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/creswick/): Describes Creswick diggers' protests in late 1854 and the 500 men who arrived at the Eureka stockade
- [St Paul’s Cathedral](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/st-pauls-cathedral/): Records the Melbourne protest meetings after Eureka and the later acquittal of the diggers on treason charges
- [The Star Hotel](https://ballaratreformleague.org.au/monuments/the-star-hotel/): Site where concerned citizens met in late 1854 to discuss reform and plan the Charter and Eureka flag

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