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	Lambing Flat riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lambing Flat riots or Lambing Flat massacre were a series of violent anti-Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, in New South Wales, Australia.
		A banner from the period, painted on a tent-flap in 1861, is now on display at the Lambing Flat museum in Young, New South Wales.
		It served as an advertisement for a public meeting that presaged the infamous Lambing Flat riots later that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lambing_Flat_riots (461 words)

	The Lambing Flat Rebellion
		The Lambing Flat riots were a series of violent anti-Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard Gully, Tipperary Gully, and especially Lambing Flat (now Young), N.S.W., in 1860-1861.
		As a direct result of the troubles at Lambing Flat, which had emphasised the population's objections to the threat of the "Chinese menace", the Government of New South Wales passed the Chinese Immigration Act, which became law on 27th November 1861; this severely restricted the numbers of Chinese permitted to enter the colony.
		The Lambing Flat Rebellion was a result of the failure of the Government to listen to the White population, which was strongly opposed to the possibility of the Asianisation of Australia.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~natinfo/1lambing.htm (1991 words)

	Race riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil unrest in which race is a key factor.
		Such riots often reflect anger among racial minority groups that are regarded as socio-economically deprived, and often such anger is directed at law enforcement agencies who are perceived to unfairly target these racial groups.
		Racial profiling, police brutality, institutional racism, urban renewal, and racial identity politics are often cited as causes of these riots, although many have argued that these riots tend not to follow any sort of political logic but rather represent spontaneous violent outbursts.
	www.proxy7.com /nph-proxy3.cgi/110010A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_riot (461 words)

	2005 Cronulla riots Biography,info
		The 2005 Cronulla riots were a series of ethnically motivated mob confrontations which originated in and around the beachfront suburb of Cronulla in Southern Sydney, a coastal region within the Metropolitan Area of Sydney, Australia's largest city.
		Of special note is that in the case of the Cronulla riots, these messages were broadcast nationally, in prime time, uncensored, showing the location and date of the proposed riot days in advance, by the Nine Network's A Current Affair.
		The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the riot was not about the attack at the beach on two Australian life-savers by young Middle Eastern men on the Sunday, but a response to an attack on two white Australians walking at the beach on the preceding Wednesday.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_2005_Sydney_race_riots (5309 words)

	Young, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James White was the first European settler in the district and established Burrangong Station in 1826 with a squatting claim of 100 square miles.
		Until that time the area was called Lambing Flat, a reference to the grazing of sheep that was the main industry until mining.
		From November 1860 through to June 1861 anti-Chinese miners attacked Chinese gold miners in the area, now known as the infamous Lambing Flat riots.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Young,_New_South_Wales (824 words)

	About The Lambing Flat
		Lok and his father travel the harsh country of south-west NSW in search of their fortune and are caught up in the infamous Lambing Flat riots, during which white diggers attacked the unsuspecting Chinese diggers, scalping some and driving many more thousands from the fields.
		Lok loses his father during this riot, and, untrusting of any other human contact, sets off in search of more diggings in an attempt to buy his way back to China, back to the only place he remembers belonging.
		This is the first fiction novel that specifically explores the Lambing Flat riots from a Chinese perspective.
	www.neridanewton.com /thelambingflat.html (309 words)

	~ GOLD ~
		At Lambing Flat, The Miner and General Advertiser (established in 1861) both closed after only nine months – a period which included the Lambing Flat riots.
		The constant flow of floundering newspapers was rather gleefully reported by the Lambing Flat correspondent of The Sydney Morning Herald who seemed to believe that some of the blame was due to the initiators of the newspapers.
		The Miner, lasting for three years from 1861–1864 was a continuation of the original Lambing Flat newspaper but after its demise in its former home the prospects were no better in Forbes.
	www.sbs.com.au /gold/story.html?storyid=141 (849 words)

	History of Young
		The Main Street of Young or Lambing Flat as it was then known, a thriving mining town as the Burrangong goldfields gave up their wealth during the 1800's.
		The stockmen had camped at Lambing Flat on the banks of Burrangong Creek and one of the men was struck with the gold bearing appearance of the place and washed a few spadefuls of earth in a billy and secured a good prospect of gold.
		However, their presence at Lambing Flat was destined to bring about the greatest anti-Chinese riots the continent had known.
	www.young.nsw.gov.au /culturalmap/history/history.htm (1358 words)

	Walkabout - Young
		A sheltered flat on the station was used by pregnant ewes and so became known as Lambing Flat.
		The miners celebrated and the major upshot of the riots was, ironically, the passage, in November, of the Chinese Immigration Restriction Act - the first legislative salvo of the White Australia Policy.
		The Chinese were consigned to this spot in an attempt to forestall trouble during the 1861 Lambing Flat Riots.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NSWYoung.shtml (3827 words)

	Racism - TCP Poetry Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In late October of 2005, violent riots erupted in north-east Paris, and later other cities around France, after two youths of North African origin were accidentally electrocuted after supposedly fleeing police.
		There were further riots by immigrant and minority populations in East London during the 1930s, Notting Hill in the 1950s, and Brixton, and Blackbird Leys, Oxford in the 1980s.
		These riots have followed cases of perceived racism - either the public displays of racist sentiment (including crimes against members of ethnic minorities which were subsequently ignored by the authorities), or, as in the Brixton riots, racial profiling and alleged harassment by the police force.
	www.criticalpoet.com /mediawiki/index.php/Racism (8471 words)

	Young History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The area was reserved for lambing ewes, hence the name "Lambing Flat".
		As a result of the riots at Lambing Flat, the Chinese Immigration Restriction Act was passed by Parliament in November 1861.
		It was regarded as the richest, most extensive and most populous in the State with 470,000 ounces of gold sent by escort from the fields.
	www.visityoung.com.au /history.htm (466 words)

	~ GOLD ~
		In 1860 miners felt Lambing Flat was their last chance to find their fortune, it was to be the new Ballarat.
		By January of 1861, it was estimated that the population at Lambing Flat had grown to almost 15,000.
		Also by 1861, a myth had grown for white miners that the Chinese were to blame for their lack of prosperity.
	www.sbs.com.au /gold/story.html?storyid=56 (1267 words)

	The Gold Rush 1823-96 \| K6 at Board of Studies
		The licence fee in NSW was reduced to 10/- a month after near riots at Turon.
		An influx of Chinese miners meant that by 1860 one fifth of all adult men in Victoria were Chinese.
		Lambing Flat riots, in which whites attacked Chinese miners.
	k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au /hsie/bsvt/back09.html (563 words)

	Activities Based On Novels - Monkey Hill Gold - Cook Primary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There was a Chinese camp at Lambing Flat.
		Many people were killed during the Lambing Flat Riot on the goldfields in 1861.
		It is important for us to learn about things that happened in history, like the lambing flat riots.
	www.cookps.act.edu.au /monkeyhillgold.htm (151 words)

	READERSVOICE.COM - Voices Plus - tips for writers - September
		Nerida Newton wrote a historical novel called The Lambing Flat, which involved research into Lambing Flat riots, when European-Australian diggers (fossickers and miners on the gold fields) attacked Chinese miners in 1860-61.
		This was on the South-West New South Wales gold fields at Lambing Flat (currently called Young).
		To research the Lambing Flat, New South Wales, scenes Ms Newton read a lot of letters and diaries from witnesses to the massacre of the Chinese fossickers at Lambing Flat.
	www.readersvoice.com /interviews/2004/September/157 (861 words)

	National Action visits Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In June 1861, 3000 diggers marched to Lambing Flat to force the Chinese miners to leave.
		Rioting followed -- diggers armed with pick handles attacked Chinese, set tents, clothing and furniture on fire, destroyed mining implements and cut off the Chinese miners' pigtails.
		The Lambing Flat riots resulted in the passing of the Chinese Immigrants Regulation and Restriction Act of 1861, the forerunner to the White Australia Policy.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1997/269/269p6.htm (533 words)

	Turkey Creek
		There are also several vineyards on the slopes of the undulating area, which is becoming known as the Hilltops wine region; one worth visiting is the small, family-run Woodonga Hill Winery, 10km north of Young on the Olympic Way (daily 9am–5pm; tel 02/6382 2972).
		A former gold-mining centre known then as Lambing Flats, the town was the site of racist riots against Chinese miners in June 1861.
		Carried at the head of the mob was a flag, painted on a tent flysheet, with the Southern Cross in the centre, and “Roll Up, Roll Up, No Chinese” lettered in the manner of a circus flyer.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/newsouthwales/young.asp (355 words)

	Writers Festival News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She is a staunch critic of the government’s policies on asylum seekers and she is unhappy that Australia went to war with Iraq.
		His father died in the infamous Lambing Flat riots and Lok decides to go back to China, the only place where he fells he belonged.
		It was then she came across the sad history of the Lambing Flat riots and found “it was such a compelling backdrop” for her first novel.
	www.writersfestival.uts.edu.au /2004/profiles/newton.html (535 words)

	People's Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Young is perhaps best remembered today as the site of Lambing Flat Riots of 30 June 1861 when miners turned on the Chinese on the Burrangong Goldfields.
		Anti-Chinese Banner from the period of the Lambing Flat Riots
		In the park opposite the Museum, next to St Mary's Catholic Church and a stones throw from the site of the Lambing Flat diggings (both of which are worth a visit), is a memorial stone which note the twinning of Young with the city of in China.
	www.peoplesvoice.gov.au /stories/nsw/young/young_c.htm (369 words)

	Cherry ripe: Young is ripe for a visit
		It's hard to imagine that Young, a small town set in lovely farming country 376 kilometres west of Sydney, was once the site of vicious race riots and bloodshed.
		The Riot Act was read after the famous Lambing Flat Riots, bushrangers multiplied and the government scrambled for a way to deal with the situation.
		The Lambing Flat Folk Museum in Young has displays that include the 'Roll-Up' flag, with its 'No Chinese' emblem, used to rally European miners whenever an attack on the Chinese miners was planned.
	www.openroad.com.au /travel_festivals_cherryripe.asp (961 words)

	Sovereign Hill Gold Museum - Exhibit - Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At Lambing Flat, now Young, in 1860 and 1861, there were riots in which the Chinese became the target for the diggers' hostility.
		The Miners' Protective League was formed in 1861 and their objectives included expulsion of the Chinese, the release of public lands and the spread of Christianity throughout the Colony.
		Also, as a result of the Lambing Flat Riots, the Chinese Immigration Act of 1861 was passed.
	www.anmm.gov.au /gold150/conflict.htm (798 words)

	erudito: Second-best political slogan, about stress, record heat, gun grannie ...
		Someone involved in a brawl that helped lead to the Cronulla riots is charged.
		But the SMH is typically historically illiterate: One of the men allegedly responsible for a race-related bashing that led to the nation's worst race riot has been refused bail in court.
		Or the 1920 Broome riot between Japanese and Timorese that involved about 2,500 people and left seven dead and sixty seriously injured?
	erudito.livejournal.com /370958.html (435 words)

	Episode Four
		In 1861 Lambing Flat was the scene for ugly riots - and for some - evidence that democracy was putting power in the wrong hands.
		So that all the conservatives said about democracy, that it will introduce lawlessness and tyranny, seemed to be coming true, so they were in a very difficult position.
		So it was a liberal Government which sent the troops twice to Lambing Flat to try and restore order.
	www.abc.net.au /ola/citizen/eps/ep04/text04.htm (2647 words)

	Australia Lambing Flats Riots 1860-1861
		Struggles over trade unionism revived (1855), and strikes occurred during periods of high unemployment, especially against the imported Chinese laborers.
		The settlement of Lambing Flat (Young) in New South Wales saw the worst of the riots against the Chinese, many of whom were attacked, robbed, beaten, or killed by white miners who wished to force them from the goldfields in the area.
		Some of the rioters were arrested; others fought gun battles with the police, who finally restored order in mid-1861.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/australia1860.htm (293 words)

	Walkabout - Ballarat
		Relations with the authorities were further damaged when three miners were given short prison sentences for their part in the riot (there seems to be some suggestion that they were innocent men, being randomly chosen to set an example).
		At this time, between one-sixth and one-quarter of the population was Chinese although they were forced into six separate protectorates or villages from 1855 due to the hostility of the Europeans.
		As the Chinese were forbidden from camping within 250 metres of a European dwelling the Chinese Village (a recreation of the original Golden Point Village) is at a remove from the main street of the complex.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/VICBallarat.shtml (7577 words)

	Articles - Racism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Other scientists, mostly biologists, who claim that race, sex and species are biologically significant concepts, and that despite their opposition to racism, deplore the misuse of scientifically significant language for political purposes.
		Related articles: White Australia policy, Terra nullius, Lambing Flat riots, Sydney gang rapes, 2000, 2002, 2005 Cronulla race riots.
		Austria has sometimes been criticised of trying to sweep its Nazi past under the carpet, typified by the widely pronounced myth that Austria was a victim of Nazi aggression rather than a willing participant.
	www.techize.com /articles/Racism (9005 words)

	Tracking the Dragon - Background
		Pressure for restricted immigration grew in NSW as well, with disturbances on the goldfields at Rocky River, Tambaroora and Adelong between 1856 and 1858.
		The most notorious of these was the so-called Lambing Flat riot -- a drawn-out series of incidents on the Burrangong Goldfield near Young in New South Wales between November 1860 and September 1861.
		Two months after the Lambing Flat incident, the New South Wales Parliament passed legislation similar to Victoria's.
	www.ahc.gov.au /publications/chineseheritage/trackingthedragon/background.html (5235 words)

	Gold-Net Australia Online - September 1999
		At this time the rioting diggers were joined by others hell bent on moving the Chinese off the diggings.
		The mad fury of the rampaging mob was reaching a crescendo at the main Chinese camp at Lower Flat.
		The Lambing Flat Riots The story of the Lambing Flat incident against the Chinese at Young New South Wales.
	www.gold-net.com.au /archivemagazines/sep99/91099145.htm (13298 words)

	Central West
		Once the centre of the goldrush in New South Wales, today the area is a rich agricultural region, with crops ranging from cotton, grain, beef and lamb to grapes, citrus and stone fruit - winelovers and foodies are well catered for.
		In the heart of stone fruit orchards, Young was the site of the savage Lambing Flat riots in 1861.
		The Lambing Flat museum has the flag used by the rioters on display.
	www.travelmate.com.au /Places/Featured_Regions.asp?RegionId=31 (845 words)

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