The Eureka Stockade is the setting of a gold miners' revolt in 1854 near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, against the officials supervising the mining of gold in the region.

The revolt had been prompted by grievances over heavily priced mining items, the expense of a Miner's Licence, taxation (via the licence) without representation and the actions of the government and its agents (the police and military).

The miners' demands include the right to vote and purchase land, and the reduction of license fees.

Agitation for these demands had commenced with the Forest Creek Monster Meeting of December 1851 and included the formation of the Anti-Gold Licence Association at nearby Bendigo in 1853.

22 people die in the revolt and 35 are injured.Although swiftly and violently put down, the Eureka rebellion is a watershed event in Australian politics.

The preceding three years of agitation for the miners' demands, combined with mass public support in Melbourne for the captured 'rebels' when they are placed on trial, results in the introduction of full white-male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament.