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22 MAY, 2014This week:

AGM at 6PMThe next meeting will start at 6pm with the AGM being held in the smaller meeting room at the top of the stairs. The club meeting will start on time at 6.30pm.

Then our speaker will be:Dr Roger DargavilleRoger works on optimisation and integration of renewable energy systems, linking together different technologies to find the least expensive, most reliable systems with the lowest carbon emissions possible. He also researches the chemistry of the stratosphere, and the impact of ozone chemistry on the surface climate.

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LAST MEETING: Pictured is special guest speaker Dr Clare Wright with President Pat Kearns. A summary of Clare’s story is on page 2 & 8.

HURRY! BOOK NOW! IT’S ON NEXT WEEK!!THE BRIGHTON LUNCH Friday 30 May 2014 see p8

NOTICE TO MEMBERS Details page 4

NEW: Members Corner page 8 May is Rotary Health Month

UPCOMING EVENTS: l ‘MAYER PAGE HEALTH WALK’ - SUN 15 JUNEl ‘CHANGEOVER’ - FRID 27 JUNE - Sandy Yacht Club

Some of the lovely Rotary ladies at Milanos last Saturday night for the ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ get together before heading off to the host families for dinner. From left: Helen Buxton, Marina Donnellan, Lesley Kearns, Sally Morris and Joyce Challis.

Last meeting’s speaker - 15 May, 2014

Dr Clare Wright ~ “Women of Eureka”From a speech by Clare Wright to M.A.D.E. by Women, Ballarat 11 May 2013

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For over 150 years, journalists, artists and high calibre historians alike have told the Eureka story in rich and evocative terms. We’ve seen it depicted in film, art, fiction, history and school curricula. But for generations of Australians, the values and ‘lessons’ ascribed to Eureka have been linked with exclusively masculine concerns and attributes. It’s been seen as a story of male passions inflamed, male blood shed and male victories won. The concepts that are seen to have their Australian roots at Eureka - unity, collectivity, the fair go, freedom, fighting for your rights - have therefore dovetailed with other Australian iconic events and places, such as Gallipoli, the bush, the 1890s shearers’ strikes that also supposedly have all-male casts and symbols of national potency. What we get is a veneer of masculine dominion over our collective history. Why does this matter? Well, I’ll get to that later. But first, I want to introduce you to some of the women of Eureka. I’ve become acquainted with these incredible women over the course of the last decade, as I’ve researched my book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. Here is a fact. There were over 5000 women in Ballarat in 1854. There were also over 6500 children. This figure does not include the many Wathaurung women who were not counted in the census but still lived on their traditional lands. Of the white population: This sheer demographic fact alone subverts the notion of the goldfields as a sort of Hollywood-style Wild West frontier of male miners and their male military foes, and throws up a barrage of questions. What if the hot-tempered, fair-minded gold miners we learnt about in school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? And what if their wives and families weren’t far away across the watery wastelands, but right by their sides? What if there were women and children inside the Eureka Stockade, defending their rights while defending themselves against a barrage of military issue bullets? And what if the soldiers who were firing upon civilians - including women - were themselves husbands and fathers, with their wives and babes not two miles away crouched within a sand-bagged government camp? What do the answers to these questions have to tell us about the whole Eureka story. Today I only have time for you to meet a few of the women who are the stars of my book and tell you briefly what the unbiddable women of Ballarat were and weren’t doing:• They were not, on the whole, demanding female suffrage though there are

clear indications that the women’s rights movement in Australia had its earliest antecedents in the mass democratic protest movements on the goldfields.

• They were not mounting the stump and making speeches at political rallies. • They were not, so far as I can ascertain, holding the guns in defence of the

Stockade. Now let me tell you what they were doing:• They were writing letters to the newspaper proclaiming the rights of the digging

community and criticising the colonial authorities, including Governor Hotham.• They were directly petitioning the Governor to claim the personal rights and

entitlements they saw as owing to them as loyal British subjects.• They were attending the mass protest meetings that were held on the diggings,

with increasing frequency and intensity as 1854 drew to its fateful close.• They were organising petitions on local matters of justice that put the government

under pressure to act.• They were supplying food, victuals and other provisions to the diggers in the

Stockade, and later to the rebel fugitives. • They were running independent businesses that provided financial support to the

miners’ cause.

What this brief and certainly not comprehensive list demonstrates is that even if women were not part of the formal body politic (they weren’t, for example, eligible to be members of the Ballarat Reform League - though they wanted to be!) they were definitely active contributors to the moral community of Ballarat for whom politics was personal, immediate and woven into the fabric of daily life. They were also acting in ways that were rebellious, independent, critical of the authority of corrupt officials (including Governor Hotham) and calculated to strike a blow for justice, integrity and fair dealing. Let me start with Ellen Young who was an Englishwoman and Chartist from London who came to Ballarat with her husband Frederick, who was a chemist by trade but worked as a digger. At 44, she was an elder in the community, swimming against the demographic tide of youth. Ellen began publishing poetry and letters to the editor of the Ballarat Times in the winter of 1854, expressing the grievances of the valiant young men and women she watched toiling for their daily bread amidst appalling physical conditions and an oppressive administrative regime. Ellen’s writing worked to mobilise the community behind the causes of their collective misery. In one letter, she disavowed violence as a legitimate means of venting the miners’ grievances, but there is little doubt that she sympathised with and advocated the cause of justice in the face of oppression – and liberty for all. Ellen assumed the voice of the community when she wrote on 18 November 1854: “We, the people, demand cheap land, just magistrates, to be represented in the Legislative Council, in fact treated as the free subjects of a great nation”. Was her tongue in her cheek when she added: “Is there not one man, Mr Editor, to insist on the above demands?” Another demanding woman of the times was Catherine Bentley, the wife of publican James Bentley and co-proprietor of the Bentley’s Eureka Hotel. Catherine, an Irish Protestant 23 year-old mother at the time of the riots. She married ex-convict James Bentley and together they built the Eureka Hotel, which was the grandest building on the diggings when it opened in July 1854. Catherine owned a pre-emptive title on the land on which it stood. Along with her husband, she was tried for the murder of miner James Scobie outside the hotel. Catherine was 6 months pregnant during the trial. James Bentley has been painted as a Eureka pariah, but a closer look at Catherine reveals a women who fought valiantly against the injustice she felt had been meted out to her family, both at the hands of the lawless, vindictive mob who burnt down her hotels and left her homeless and a self-serving colonial administration. Despite untold personal tragedy, Catherine did not give up the ghost. Far from it, she exhibited what, if she were a man with a pike in her hand, might been called ‘the spirit of Eureka’. She stood up for what she felt were her rights and entitlements. She would not let official bullying or harassment deter her from seeking justice. She would not let her hopes and aspirations slip through her fingers. Catherine kept up her quest for financial restitution and, even in her elderly years, she kept trying to tell her side of the story that shaped her life. continued page 8

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Presented by President Pat Kearns

Sec Bill announced that Changeover was coming and it would be held at the Sandringham Yacht Club on Friday 27 June. Invitations would be going out shortly.Also the next meeting will start at 6pm with the AGM being held in the smaller meeting room at the top of the stairs. The club meeting will start on time at 6.30pm.

• Geoff Bentley: THE BRIGHTON LUNCH Geoff spoke about the Luncheon once

more and mentioned they were only 2 weeks out from the event. Geoff pointed out the speakers which are mentioned on the previous page which include Kevin Sheedy and Lionel Long. Geoff thanked the Members who have Billboards on their fences promoting the event. Geoff spoke about the great Auction prizes and he also thanked his committee for their very

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• Pres Pat welcomed everyone to our special Ladies Night. Pat mentioned that the previous meeting we had the

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• Pat then introduced his front table: Chairman Michael Kuzilny, special guest speaker Dr Clare Wright, Secretary Bill Howley and Sergeant Darren Donnellan. A warm Brighton Rotary welcome was then accorded to Dr Clare Wright. Pat the welcomed all guests and partners of Members.

• Pat made mention again of several Members who are on the sick list: Michael Rundle who is to have a 4th week of Chemo next week who was thinking positively. George Jerzyk now out of hospital - daughter looking after him and he is beginning to sound chirpy and cheeky again. Greg Biggin who had some bad results from hospital and is due for an operation the following week. John Doyle had a knee replacement at Cabrini. Noel Williams had a heart bypass.

• At the end of the meeting Pat thanked Clare for her talk and PP Tom Buxton for managing to finally get Clare to speak at our meeting. Pat mentioned that Clare’s book would be on sale after the meeting and the trade was brisk with Clare personally signing each copy. Pat also promoted the Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Saturday 17 May, the Brighton Lunch Friday 30 May, Mayer Page Walk 15 June & Changeover Friday 27 June.

Front Desk Report Thursday 15 May, 2014Attendance: 46 Percentage: 45%Member’s Make-ups: Geoff Cunningham@Albert Park, Ron Stark@District x 2;Member’s Apologies: John Doyle, Dale Hoy, PP Peter Johns, Michael Rundle, Ron Stark;Club Guests: Peter Sneddon, Luke & Jude McCartney;Member’s Partners: Jill (Eric Barr), Helen (PP Tom Buxton), Joyce

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Member’s Guests: Judee Stevenson, Dorothy Wall-Smith (PDG John King), Elise McCune, Gill Barnett, Ron Breth (PP Stan Rankin).

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DR CLARE WRIGHT “Women of Eureka” continued from page 2 Then there’s Sarah Hanmer, a 36 year old Scots-Irish actress and single mother who came to Victoria with her 12 year old daughter Julia after spending time in America during the Californian goldrushes. In Ballarat, Sarah became the well-respected proprietor of the Adelphi Theatre, which was the HQ of the American diggers and the place of political meetings. [Show slides] Sarah held benefit nights at her premises and donated the proceeds to the Diggers’ Defence Fund and fledgling Miner’s Hospital. Mrs Hanmerer was, according to the Argus newspaper, “an immense favourite on the diggings … deserving the utmost praise for her kindness”. She was routinely commended for “the energy and ability of her management” and the “intellectual treats” her troupe dished up to the inhabitants of Ballarat. It was at the Adelphi Theatre where the Ballarat Reform League planned to hold their next meeting on the afternoon of Sunday 3 December. The campaign didn’t make it that far. There’s also Clara Duval Seekamp, the Irish actress and mother of three who became Australia’s first female newspaper editor when she took over the Ballarat Times during the time her defacto husband, Henry Seekamp, was in custody on sedition charges after the Stockade clash. Or Martha Clendinning, the English doctor’s wife who, with her sister, started a highly successful store on the Ballarat diggings and, like so many other women of her ilk, became the family breadwinner for the first and only time in their lives. Or Margaret Howden Johnston, who arrived as the 22 year-old fiancé of Assistant Gold Commissioner James Johnston in August 1854 and, as a pregnant newlywed, was taken straight to the Ballarat Government Camp where she endured the honeymoon from hell. Or Anastasia Hayes, the Irish firebrand and mother of six who was intimately entangled in just about every aspect of the miners protest, including sewing the flag at the Catholic Church where she worked as a teacher. Or Eliza Darcy, a brave young Irish girl whose granddaughter, Ella Hancock, is the oldest living Eureka descendant. Or Lady Jane Hotham, the high-spirited new bride who accompanied her husband, the Governor of Victoria, to the colonies and left again less than a year later as a widow. The fact that these women’s names are not as familiar to us as that of Peter Lalor, Timothy Hayes and Charles Hotham is evidence of the inherent bias of Australian nationalism. The spirit of Eureka may well be part of our collective identity, but we have a collective amnesia when it comes to the valiant deeds and heroic struggles of our colonial women. We have a lost tradition of female political activism and dissent in this country, a tradition that predates the middle-class social reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So, I ask again now, why does this matter? Why is it important to know about the women of Eureka? Isn’t this just trendy lefty academic political correctness? (as the likes of Andrew Bolt apparently believe) Am I not just your “average latte-sipping, Chomsky-reading, “terrorism is a valid political expression”-believing armchair feminist” (as one web-blogger wrote about me)? I can, and one of the reasons I can is because I have a picture in my head - indelibly inked there through my research - of men and women from many lands standing together beneath a new flag. The flag bore the symbol of the constellation that located and united them in their new home - the Southern Cross. That flag was almost certainly sewn by the women of Ballarat. Under that flag the men of the Ballarat Reform League swore an oath to stand truly each other and fight to defend their rights and liberties. Women were at that meeting too. At the time, they called that flag ‘the Australian Flag’. And as I said before, not only men, but also at least one woman, died in defence of some pretty basic democratic principles: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of the press. I would argue that these democratic principles are ones we still need to guard and defend today. Democracy is hard work and it requires eternal vigilance. If we understand that Australian women, as well as men, have been historically vigilant and hard working, might not that inspire more of today’s young women to honour the legacy of those actions? We need to understand women’s relationship to citizenship in order to affirm their sense of entitlement to participate in national discourses and occupy cultural spaces - important and highly visible cultural spaces like this one here at M.A.D.E. The role of colonial women in the processes of nation-building thus provides the background to current international and local debates surrounding female representation in Western democracies.

Unfortunately, more than 150 years after the Eureka rebels raised their voices to demand liberty and equality for the disenfranchised miner, we still have to keep reminding the cultural gatekeepers that women were there too, and that their stories are just as vital, just as valid, and just as vibrant as the stories of the men. This is not an either/or predicament. It’s a not only … but also situation. We don’t have to choose. We just have to respect the historical record. Let me be quite clear. My goal is not to undermine the potency of the Eureka story in Australia’s collective imagination. Far from it. I’m not here to scoff at its centrality to our national mythology or deride those who have devoted themselves to the task of building a legend. Rather, I want to re-invigorate the story with a contemporary sensibility so as to bring renewed relevance to a modern, diverse community for whom talk of ‘democracy and freedom’ should automatically raises questions of gender equity. The great gift of Eureka - its beauty and its terror - is that the story of women’s effort, influence and sacrifice is both politically correct and historically true. From a speech to M.A.D.E. by Women, Ballarat 11 May 2013

President Pat Kearns presented Dr Clare Wright with a bouquet of flowers in appreciation for her wonderful talk at last week’s meeting.

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