The Eureka Flag: A Photo Essay by Peter Solness
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There is no flag in Europe or in the civilised world half so beautiful… the flag is silk, blue ground, with a large silver cross; no device or arms, but all exceedingly chaste and natural.
Raffaello Carboni in his published account of the Eureka uprising
(R Carboni, The Eureka Stockade, Melbourne , 1855)
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