The Roll Up banner around which a mob of about 1,000 men rallied and attacked Chinese miners at Lambing Flat in June 1861. The banner is now on display in the museum at Young.

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. They occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard Gully, Tipperary Gully, and Lambing Flat (now Young, New South Wales), in 1860-1861. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1965x1146, 1418 KB) Banner from 1860 and 1861 anti-Chinese rebellion on the Lambing Flat goldfields, now present day Young, New South Wales, , Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1965x1146, 1418 KB) Banner from 1860 and 1861 anti-Chinese rebellion on the Lambing Flat goldfields, now present day Young, New South Wales, , Australia. ... Young is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia and is the centre of Young Shire. ... NSW redirects here. ... Young is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia and is the centre of Young Shire. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

From 1855, during periods of high unemployment, strikes occurred in the NSW gold mines. A major element of the strikes was violent opposition to immigrant Chinese labourers who had settled on the goldfields. The first disturbance grew out of a demonstration organised by a white miners' vigilance committee against gambling dens and other alleged vice on 12 December 1860. The miners attacked the Chinese quarter, killed several people and wounded many others. Other attacks followed and the Chinese miners were eventually forced to abandon the fields. Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Gamble redirects here. ... Vice is a practice or habit that is considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the associated society. ... is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ...

Some of the rioters were arrested whilst others fought gun battles with the police. A military detachment finally restored order in mid-1861. When the Chinese returned to the fields and the troops departed, a final, devastating riot occurred on 30 June. Several thousand miners descended on the Chinese, plundering their dwellings. Mounted pursuers overtook the fleeing Chinese and degraded, beat, and robbed them. Police soon returned to restore order. Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

The NSW legislative bodies passed the Chinese Immigration Act in November 1861, restricting Chinese immigrants to certain areas and charging a residence tax in order to discourage immigration. In Victoria, Chinese arrivals were denied the right to naturalisation. Such sentiments sowed the seeds for the White Australia Policy that would dictate Australia's immigration policy for more than a century. VIC redirects here. ... -1... This badge from 1906 shows the use of the expression White Australia at that time While there was never any specific official policy called the White Australia policy, this is the term used for a collection of historical legislation and policies which either intentionally or unintentionally restricted non-white immigration...

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. Bearing a Southern Cross superimposed over a St. Andrew's Cross with the inscription, 'Roll Up - No Chinese', the banner was a variant of the Eureka Flag. It served as an advertisement for a public meeting that presaged the infamous Lambing Flat riots later that year. Painted by a Scottish migrant, it is a testimony to the transfer of cultural practices and values through migration. It is possibly a unique example of the Chartist art. Young is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia and is the centre of Young Shire. ... Southern Cross is the English name of Crux Australis, a constellation visible in the Southern Hemisphere. ... ... The Eureka Flag The Eureka Flag is an Australian flag which has no official status, but which is used by a wide range of groups. ... A movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom during the mid_19th century, Chartism gains its name from the Peoples Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement. ...

See Also

The Lambing Flat - an historical fiction novel by Nerida Newton set in and around Young at the time of the Lambing Flat riots The Lambing Flat (ISBN 0-702-23386-2) is a novel written by Australian author Nerida Newton and was first published in 2003. ... Australian novelist Nerida Newton was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1972, and has since lived in Malaysia, South Africa, UK, and France. ...

External links

• History of Young
• ABC history page

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