Why was George blacksignificant to Australia?

Answer 1

In 1853 George Black spoke to the diggers at Beechworth:

Diggers must have a voice in the Council, if you will only combine together, hold meetings such as the present, express your will in a firm and determined manner, you will accomplish your objects and obtain your rights; there is no need of force and of arms; for reason, mind, intelligence, are all-sufficient for the attainment of your rights. I trust this is not the last meeting that will assemble here, and that diggers will never rest till fairly represented in the Council.[3]Goldfields Involvement, 1854

George Black, an influential member of the Ballarat Reform League, bought and edited the Diggers Advocate, a radical newspaper, launched in Ballarat by George Thompson and Henry Holyoake. The Diggers Advocate played an important role in the events leading up to the Eureka StockadeRebellion.[4]

He was a voting member of the Ballarat Reform League, and on 11 November 1854 he proposed a Ballarat Reform Leagueresolution. Black was aChartist who was not present during the Eureka Stockade battle. When Andrew McIntyre, Fletcher and Westerby were convicted of burning Bentley's Eureka Hotel George Black and Kennedy went to Melbourne to demand their release. Black and party presented a document to GovernorCharles Hotham in Melbourne on November 27, and he spoke at the Bakery Hill Meeting on 29 November 1854. George Black and Thomas Kennedy went to Creswick to gather support in teh days proceeding the Eureka battle. [5]