Anastasia Hayes -
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By 28th November 1854, the leaders realised that they no longer felt allegiance to the Union Jack and needed a flag of their own. A Canadian miner, Charles Ross, made a rough drawing of the design and then enlisted local women to make it for him. Anastasia Hayes is believed to be one of the three woman who sewed the Eureka flag, that marvelloussymbol of independence, where the silver cross and its five adjacent stars are emblazoned on a blue background. The other women involved in making the flag were Anastasia Withers and Ann Duke.
In fact, men and women from many lands stood together beneath the new flag. The flag bore the symbol of the constellation that located and united them in their new home — the Southern Cross.
Under that flag, the men of the Ballarat Reform League swore an oath to stand truly each with other and fight to defend their rights and liberties. Women were at that meeting too. At the time, they called the flag “the Australian Flag”.
Original Eureka Flag - http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201112/r864347_8327551.jpg