He said the flag was sometimes confused for the flag of the Lambing Flat Riots, a series of anti-Chinese attacks on New South Wales' goldfields a few years after the battle at the Eureka Stockade.
1. ‘Swearing allegiance to the Southern Cross’ The Eureka Stockade, sketched by a Canadian artist and digger, Charles Doudiet, December 1, 1854. Credit: Wikimedia/ Ball “He received a letter ...