Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rahs20 AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES ISSN: 1031-461X (Print) 1940-5049 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rahs20 ‘New Brooms They Say Sweep Clean’: Women's Political Activism on the Ballarat Goldfields, 1854 Clare Wright To cite this article: Clare Wright (2008) ‘New Brooms They Say Sweep Clean’: Women's Political Activism on the Ballarat Goldfields, 1854, AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 39:3, 305-321, DOI: 10.1080/10314610802263307 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/10314610802263307 Published online: 18 Aug 2008. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 826 Citing articles: 1 View citing articles