Badges relating to political issues [PRG 1491/25/51-100] • Realia
Free Bangladesh.
Featuring text 'Free Bangladesh' in yellow around edge, with flag of Bangladesh in the background (red circle on green field), with a yellow map of Bangladesh in the centre of the red circle.
Kanaky - free and independent.
Featuring black text around edge 'Kanaky - free and independent' on yellow background, with black fleche faitiere, a spear-like wooden totem monument placed atop traditional dwellings.
Independence for Australia.
Maoist Communist badge featuring the slogan 'Independence for Australian in white around the edge, with the Eureka flag symbol in the centre, on a blue background. Maoist Communists were a group of activists who in the 1960s broke away from the Communist Party of Australia to form the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist). They formed the Australian Independence Movement in the mid-1970s, with the Eureka flag as its symbol.
Independence for Australia.
Maoist Communist badge featuring the slogan 'Independence for Australian in white around the edge, with the Eureka flag symbol in the centre, on a blue background. Maoist Communists were a group of activists who in the 1960s broke away from the Communist Party of Australia to form the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist). They formed the Australian Independence Movement in the mid-1970s, with the Eureka flag as its symbol.
Demand cultural independence.
Maoist Communist badge featuring text in blue around edge 'Demand Cultural Independence' with blue illustration in the centre of 'Blinky Bill' the koala carrying the Eureka flag on a pole over his shoulder, on a white background.
Abolish the monarchy.
Featuring black text 'Abolish the Monarchy' with cartoon caricature of Queen Elizabeth II in the centre, on a white background.
Chairman Mao badge.
Chairman Mao badge, featuring a relief profile of Mao Zedong in silver, on a red background, with an inscription in Chinese on the reverse.
Fidel Castro badge.
Badge featuring a black and white drawing of a man wearing a military beret, possibly Fidel Castro, on a red and yellow background, with a black border.
Viva Mandela!
Featuring text in black 'Viva Mandela' next to illustration of Nelson Mandela, on a yellow background.
Support ANC.
Featuring text in black, 'Support ANC African National Congress', with green stripe underneath, on a yellow background.
Not in our name.
Featuring black text 'Not in our name' with website address 'www.nowar-sa.net', on purple background.
Mobilization for survival.
Featuring black text at top, 'Mobilization for survival', with three images underneath: a nuclear missile in a red circle with diagonal line across it, next to a diagram of an atom inside a red circle with a diagonal line across it, above an illustration of two stalks of wheat inside a green circle, on a white background. The Mobilization for Survival organisation (1977-1992) was comprised of affiliated grassroots peace and social justice groups working to abolish nuclear weapons and power, stop military intervention, and reverse the arms race.
No blood for oil.
Featuring text in black 'No blood for oil!' on red background.
OWN Tasmania.
Featuring text in white in the centre 'OWN Tasmania' on a green background, with border comprised of a circle of joined hands. The Older Women's Network (OWN) is an organisation open to women over the age of 50, committed to promoting the rights and dignity of older women, and lobbying for legislative and other reforms on issues affecting the quality of life of all women.
Close Pine Gap.
Featuring text in yellow 'Close Pine Gap' with illustration of yellow circles on yellow ground and black sky. In November 1983 a Women's Peace Camp was held at Pine Gap, the United States-Australian defence intelligence facility near Alice Springs. The camp was attended by more than 800 women who demonstrated against the presence of a United States base in Australia.
USS Antietam.
Oval shaped badge of the USS Antietam (CG-54) guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, with 'USS Antietam CG 54' in yellow around the blue border, shield in centre featuring a trident and two stars under a bridge and red sky, and a missile and two canons surrounded by a wreath, with 'Power to Prevail' in a ribbon at the bottom.
Humanist Society.
Featuring the 'Happy Human' icon, an international symbol of secular humanism, in black, with text 'Humanist Society' around the edge at the bottom, on a white background.
No education cutbacks.
Featuring white text in centre, 'No education cutbacks', with black text around edge, 'A right, not a privilege, a living wage for all', on a blue background.
Fightback = stepback for education.
Featuring yellow text 'Fightback = stepback for education' on black background.
Stop laughing at Billy!'.
Election campaign badge worn by Labor Party members, ridiculing Prime Minister William McMahon, featuring text 'Stop laughing at Billy!' around edge, with a simple cartoon outline of a head, featuring two large ears and a bald head.