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Whilst the gold rush was happening everybody was going to the goldfields and local shops were going out of business because of staff and customers abandoning there jobs and going to the goldfields to strike gold. The government heard about this catastrophe and decided to make a miners Licence ,this miners Licence was ten shillings and you had to have one with you to mine for gold and if you didnt the police would destroy your tent, mug you and bash you with a batten to death the miners quickly caught on to the back of this scheme train and tried to stop it. On December 3, 1854 in Eureka, Ballarat , victoria miners built a stockade and rebelled against the authorities resulting in 24 miner deaths and 3 deaths of soldiers the miners lost but the government thought that the miners licenses were corrupting the troopers and resulting in many deaths and with drew the miners licenses.