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Review of Eureka 154th Annual Commemoration & Celebration Ballarat and Melbourne, 20 Nov - 7 Dec 2008
Eureka’s Children is represented on the Eureka Commemorative Planning Committee for the annual celebrations in Ballarat and Melbourne.
The major events for members of Eureka’s Children in the overall program was the Inaugural Eureka Address and Award at the Celtic Club in Melbourne and the Digger’s March from Bakery Hill to the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat.
To view details of the 2008 Eureka Commemoration Program and the Diggers’ March, CLICK HERE
Eureka commemorations in Ballarat for 2008 were a wonderful success. Generally all programs and events were well attended and some of the highlights include:
• The Digger’s March. The 2008 Digger's March was led by Peter Lalor Philp, great great grandson of Peter Lalor, and included the involvement of St. Alipius students; some of whom performed tableaus at each stopping point whilst others, dressed in colonial costume, carried the flags of 22 nations represented at Eureka. Points of historic interest were brought to life along the march route by pre-eminent historians; Prof. Weston Bate, Prof. John Molony. Dr. Anne Beggs Sunter, John Ireland and other presenters including Peter Lalor Philp, Eric Howard and Val D'Angri.
• The Eureka Mass. at St. Alipius Church which we helped initiate in 2007 was again a colourful and wonderful commemoration of Eureka and Advent celebrated by Fr. Mc Inerney to a congregation of 300-400 parishioners.
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• Eureka's Children Inaugural Eureka Address and the Eureka Award
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Our new commemorative event this year was the Inaugural Eureka Address and the Eureka Award presented at the Annual Dinner on the 3rd Dec. at the Celtic Club. The guest speaker was the prominent civil libertarian Julian Burnside QC. The Award was presented to Weston Bate.
Included in the Marchl 2009 Newsletter is the paper presented by Julian Burnside QC at our Annual Eureka Lecture. |
Julian Burnside
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