How Ballarat missed out on Sidney Nolan's Eureka Stockade mural

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Updated February 18 2019 - 7:08am, first published February 17 2019 - 5:00pm
MONUMENTAL TASK: Workers install Sidney Nolan's huge Eureka Stockade mural at the ANU's new cultural centre after it was donated by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Picture: Lannon Harley
MONUMENTAL TASK: Workers install Sidney Nolan's huge Eureka Stockade mural at the ANU's new cultural centre after it was donated by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Picture: Lannon Harley

It depicts one of the defining events in Ballarat’s – and the nation’s – history. So how did Sidney Nolan’s mural, Eureka Stockade, end up in the Australia National University in Canberra, rather than in the city it portrays?

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Jolyon Attwooll

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Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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