At 11:00am on November 30th, 1854 the Southern Cross, the flag of the Eureka rebellion, was raised for the first time on Bakery Hill in Ballarrat.

At the same time in Melbourne, 150 years later descendants of those rebels raised the flag on Melbournes largest flagpole at Haymarket. The picture above is of Glenn Withers and his great-great-great-grand mother, Anastasia Withers. Anastasia was one of the women who sewed the first flag.