Badges relating to political issues [PRG 1491/25/51-100] • Realia
I'm a friend of the Earth.
Featuring slogan 'I'm a friend of the Earth' in white across the bottom, with colour simplistic illustration of a tree with yellow leaves on grass, with a rainbow in the sky, on a white background.
May Day, International Year of Peace.
Badge promoting 100 years celebrating May Day or International Workers' Day, featuring text in white '1886 1986, Hundred Years, May Day, March for the UN, International Year of Peace', featuring International Year of Peace logo, two hands releasing a dove, surrounded by a wreath, on a peach coloured background.
March on 1st May Day for peace and full employment.
May Day or International Workers' Day badge, featuring text 'March on...1st May Day for peace and full employment', in peach colour on a white background.
May Day 1977.
May Day or International Workers' Day badge, featuring text 'May Day 1977' in white with illustration of a dove with an olive branch in its beak in the centre, on a peach coloured background.
May Day 1979.
May Day or International Workers' Day badge, featuring text in red 'May Day 1979, world peace, I.Y.C.' on white background, with red flag in the centre with the International Year of the Child symbol in the middle, and a map of Australia between the words 'World' and 'Peace'.
May Day. Organise to protect workers' rights.
May Day or International Worker's Day badge, featuring text in red and white 'May Day. Organise to protect workers' rights', over a silhouette image of a fist, on a light blue background.
Domestic workers struggle.
Western Service Workers Association - California Homemakers Association badge featuring black text around edge 'Domestic Workers Struggle WSWA-CHA' with black illustration in centre possibly showing workers breaking the chains of injustice, on a red background. WSWA-CHA was one front for the National Labor Federation, in turn the public front of the Communist Party USA (Provisional) Order of Lenin.
The working people have no country.
Karl Marx quotation badge, featuring text in white 'The working people have no country - Karl Marx', next to a red five-pointed star, on a black background.
Vote socialist workers. Return a Labor majority.
Election campaign badge, featuring text 'Vote Socialist Workers, Return a Labor majority' in white and black, on a red background'.
Land Rights Not Uranium.
Featuring text in white 'Land Rights Not Uranium' with the layout of the Aboriginal flag in the background.
Reconciliation. It's up to us.
Badge commissioned by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991-2001) featuring text 'Reconciliation it's up to us' in blue and white text, and 'Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation' in yellow around the rim, on background featuring blue ground and yellow sky with sun.
Walking together.
Badge commissioned by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991-2001), with text in white 'Walking together' and 'Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation' around the edge, on a black background with stylised pattern illustration of a sun and walkway in yellow, blue and red.
Stolen Generations Commemorative Badge, Sorry Day.
Badge produced to acknowledge National Sorry Day, held to express regret for the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Featuring black text 'Stolen Generations Commemorative badge, Sorry Day - 26th May' around edge, with colour illustration in centre of a tree with tear-drop leaves, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags behind the roots of the tree in the ground, on a white background.
Land Rights Now.
Badge supporting Aboriginal land rights, featuring text in black around the edge, 'Land Rights Now, with illustration of the Aboriginal flag on a flag pole in the centre, on a white background.
We walk on Aboriginal Land.
Hand-drawn badge, featuring text in black 'We walk on Aboriginal Land' and silhouette illustration of an Aboriginal woman standing on sand.
Walking together.
Badge commissioned by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991-2001), with text in white 'Walking together' and 'Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation' around the edge, on a black background with stylised pattern illustration of a sun and walkway in yellow, blue and red.
No to racism!
Featuring white text 'No to racism! Resistance', on black background.
Out of ANZUS.
Featuring text in white around the edge 'Out of ANZUS' with a red circle with diagonal line across the centre over a black and white illustration of 'Uncle Sam', on white background. The ANZUS treaty was signed by Australia, New Zealand and the United States in 1951 after cooperation during WWII and as a response to the Cold War situation at the end of the war.
ANZUS is a load of balls.
Anti-ANZUS treaty badge, featuring text 'ANZUS is a load of balls' around the edge in blue, with illustration of a kiwi bird with a ball and chain attached to it's leg, on a white background. New Zealand had increasing problems with its role in the treaty during the 1980s when it refused to allow American warships to dock in its ports. In 1984 Prime Minister David Lange barred nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from New Zealand's harbours, and New Zealand was gradually sidelined from the treaty.
Disarm the Rogue States.
Featuring black text 'Disarm the Rogue States' with colour illustration of the United States of America flag surrounded by stars and swirls, on a white background.
Disarm the Rogue States.
Featuring text in black 'Disarm the Rogue States' with black outline illustration of the flag of the United States of America, on orange background.
Peace begins at home. US bases out.
Featuring text in black 'Peace begins at home. US bases out' with simplified drawing of a house, with pink, blue, orange and black in the background.
U.S. bases out.
Text in blue 'U.S. bases out' at bottom, with blue outlined illustration of a cockatoo pointing with its left wing, and looking down at circles with triangle patterns on them, on orange background.
East Timor. Let the East Timorese decide.
Featuring white text 'East Timor. Let the East Timorese decide', on black background.
Independence for East Timor. Indonesia out now!
Featuring text in white 'Independence for East Timor' in white, and black 'Indonesia out now!', on a red and yellow background, with a white five-pointed star at the top.
Free East Timor!
Square badge featuring text in red 'Free East Timor!' across the bottom on a white background, with black and white photograph of an East Timorese child.
Oppose foreign bases in S.E. Asia.
Text in black 'Oppose foreign bases in S.E. Asia' on yellow background.
British terrorists out of Ireland.
Featuring black text 'British terrorists out of Ireland' over a map of Ireland in green, with a small section at the top coloured red, on a white background.
South Africa freedom now!
Featuring text 'South Africa Freedom Now! Resistance', with illustration of a white fist on a black background at the top, with a green stripe underneath and a yellow stripe at the bottom.
Let the Palestinians return.
Badge produced by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Australia, featuring text in black 'Let the Palestinians return' over a green background with a map of Palestine in red in the centre.