License Tax Unpopular ! 15 December 1851: Over 10,000 diggers responded to this notice pinned to trees across the Mt Alexander goldfield:
"FELLOW DIGGERS!
The intelligence has just arrived of the resolution of the Government to double the license fee. Will you tamely submit to the imposition or assert your rights as men? You are called upon to pay a tax originated and concocted by the most heartless selfishness, ...  More...