WI Queensland civil war?

Flippin heck, that's pretty interesting ! A CW within Qld ? never knew that it came that close to actual armed rebellion within this state !

So, basically the leftist shearers vs the squatters who're backed up by the cops & the militia ? Heck, maybe if the strikers had been better prepared, they could've turned the whole dispute into an even bigger version of the Eureka Stockade ?
 
Hopefully the shearers could have learned from the diggers and not get slaughtered on a dozy Sunday morning. The diggers were a large and concentrated group, easily gathered for mass meetings, did the shearers have the same advantages?
 
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