The real Eureka flag was collected by police trooper John King, after the fight at the stockade and was kept in the Ballarat Fine Arts Gallery, before being moved in 2012 to the new Museum of Australian Democracy (MADE) at the Eureka Stockade site.
Gordon Jackson sings the Scottish folk song "Wha Saw the Tattie Howkers" in this film. He sings the same song with Angus Lennie in The Great Escape (1963).
Debut of actress Dorothy Alison.