Badges relating to political issues [PRG 1491/25/1-50] • Realia
Roxby is risky.
Hand-drawn badge, featuring text 'Roxby is Risky' in red and white, on a red, white and black background.
Make Australia nuclear free.
Featuring the slogan 'Make Australia nuclear free' in white around the edge, with a green Australia in the centre on a black background, and a red circle with diagonal bar over a black nuclear symbol, overlying the map of Australia.
Labor against uranium.
Black text 'Labor against Uranium' on yellow background.
Nobody wins nuclear wars.
Black text 'Nobody wins nuclear wars' on blue background.
Protest and survive.
Featuring slogan in black 'Protest and survive', with cartoon illustration in centre of five people carrying a nuclear missile, on a white background.
Roxby Downs uranium mining.
A collection of circular tin plate badges with pin attachment on back, relating to Australian political issues from the 1970s to the 2000s collected by Molly Brannigan. Topics include: Australian Labor Party, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign (VMC), peace movement and an end to war, anti-nuclear and uranium mining protests, nuclear disarmament, Friends of the Earth, May Day peace marches, Socialist workers, Aboriginal land rights and reconciliation, against ANZUS and US bases in Australia, independence for various countries, Australian Independence Movement of the mid 1970s, and miscellaneous political badges. See below for details.
Jobs not nuclear war!
Featuring red text 'Young Socialists. Jobs not nuclear war!' on white background.
For a nuclear-free Pacific.
Featuring slogan 'For a nuclear-free Pacific' in yellow around the top edge, with a yellow palm tree and sun against blue sky and ocean background. The slogan relates to French nuclear testing in the Pacific which was strongly protested by Australians in 1972-1973.
No uranium, no more Hiroshimas.
Featuring slogan in white around the border, 'No uranium, no more Hiroshimas' on a black background, with illustration of mushroom cloud in centre, on a white background, with the word 'NO' overlayed.
Black ban uranium.
Featuring slogan in black 'Black ban uranium' on yellow background.
Women against nuclear energy.
Protest badge featuring text 'Women against nuclear energy' in purple around the edge, with the female symbol in the centre, with a red nuclear symbol in the middle and a purple clenched fist, on a yellow background.
Stop uranium mining.
Protest badge featuring text in black around the edge 'Stop uranium mining', with red radioactive/nuclear symbol with a black skull in its centre, on a yellow background.
Uranium? No thanks.
Uranium mining protest badge featuring the slogan 'Uranium? No thanks' around the edge in black, with a red sun with a smiling face in the centre, on a yellow background. This badge design originates from a competition run in Danish schools in the mid-1970s to design a logo for the country's Organisation for Information on Atomic Energy (OOA), and was adopted by the World Information Service on Energy (Wise) in the late 1970s, becoming a very popular anti-nuclear badge.
Radioactivity fades your genes.
Uranium mining protest badge featuring the slogan 'Radioactivity fades your genes, Movement Against Uranium Mining (NSW)' in bright pink, on a dark purple background. The Movement Against Uranium Mining (MAUM) developed from a public meeting of community groups and organisations held in Melbourne in 1976, and the group conducted rallies and demonstrations across Australia. The badge was worn at the March Against Uranium Mining in October 1980 and the Roxby Downs Blockade campaign of September 1984, among other campaigns.
That's all folks!
Nuclear protest badge, featuring the slogan 'That's all folks!' across the centre in bright pink, with image of the mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb explosion behind, on a black background.
Take the toys away from the boys.
Disarmament badge featuring the slogan 'Take the toys away from the boys' in black text in the centre, on an orange background, with the word 'Disarm' repeated around the border in orange, over a black border.
Stop de neutronen bom.
Nuclear disarmament badge, featuring the slogan 'Stop de neutronen bom' (stop the neutron bomb) in blue and red, over a yellow background, with illustration of two men working on an atomic bomb at the bottom.
Everyone counts for a nuclear free Australia.
Rectangular shaped badge featuring slogan 'Everyone counts for a nuclear free Australia' in black written across a rainbow, on a yellow background with a black border.
No uranium mining.
Anti-uranium mining protest badge, featuring the text 'No uranium mining' in white around the top, with the Eureka flag motif of the southern cross on a blue background, overlayed on a red radioactive/nuclear symbol, linking the anti-uranium mining campaign to Australian nationalism and pride associated with the Eureka stockade flag.
Friends of the Earth.
Featuring text 'Friends of the Earth' in green at the bottom, incorporated into a design of five large trees in a field, on a yellow background. Friends of the Earth is a federation of autonomous local groups who are working towards an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable future.