The soldiers and police attacked the diggers and some of the diggers where killed on the 3rd of December 1854 at the Eureka Stockade.

The battle took place because one of the miners was killed and they were also angry about paying for there licenses. The miners were also fed up with the police.

The stockade was only a wooden barricade enclosing about an acre of the goldfields. The battle lasted for 15 - 20 minutes. Five soldiers were killed and thirty diggers were killed or later died of their wounds.

The immediate results were that license hunting became almost non-existent and the Victorian jury acquitted all but one of all 13 miners was charged.

After this battle the miners did not have to pay for their licences and they had the right to vote for the government.

Some people say that the Eureka Stockade was the beginning of Australian democracy.