It's worth pointing out that these 'noble miners' were a bunch of racists who constantly indulged in violence against the large population of Chinese on the goldfields. The Chinese used their ancient mining skills very effectively in their new surroundings causing great resentment and jealousy among the European diggers, especially when the Chinese used their skills to find gold in areas that had been thought to be worked out. Things got so bad that the 'evil' old colonial government was forced to appoint officers to ensure the well-being of the Chinese population in mining areas and defend them against the rinky-dinky you-beaut true-blue miners, who were very loud on rights and freedom, as long as it applied to whites only.The famous Eureka flag was for years the banner of the 'Australia for the white man' brigade, and symbolic of the racist Australian working man's paranoid fear of immigrants entering the country and 'stealing' their jobs.