Saturday 4 March 2017 – Monster meeting land purchase celebration

Posted on 27 February, 2017 by Connecting Country

Connecting Country would like to share an invitation from DEWLP to join Maree Edwards MP, Member for Bendigo West, to celebrate the purchase of land on which the first Monster Meeting occurred in 1851. The site is on traditional Dja Dja Wurrung land and return of this land to the public land estate is culturally significant.

The Monster Meeting of miners, held on 15 December 1851 in Chewton, is believed to be the first mass protest against a government in Australia, predating the Red Ribbon Rebellion and Eureka Stockade. The Monster Meeting was called to protest against an increase in licence fees and following the meeting the proposal was abandoned. The site is nationally significant for its links to the development of Victoria through the discovery of gold and its association with the beginnings of democracy in Victoria.

When: Saturday 4 March 2017 at 11am-1pm
Where: Golden Point Road, Chewton

Please RSVP by the 1st March 2017
seamus.haugh@delwp.vic.gov.au or 5430 4685