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Collection: union

Treasures from a range of local, state, national, and private collections will be part of the Centre of Democracy’s story. Some of the objects here are on display right now, others have been, or will be part of the changing exhibition in the Institute Building.

See something you like? Explore the collections using the tags below.

Do you have something historically significant you think should be on display? contact us at [email protected]

  • activism
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  • badge
  • belongings
  • ceramics
  • Colonial
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  • union
  • voting
  • women

Achieving the 8 hour day

Achieving the 8 hour day

Unions are for women too

The Temperance Movement

A silver plate with pinched edges all around.

Working women

Sixteen reasons for supporting woman’s suffrage

An off white, almost yellow, fabric ribbon in a long vertical rectangle with a small metal disk with spiked edged pinned to the top centre. The ribbon read, in red text, Federated Timber Workers Union.

Federated Timber Workers

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

The first meeting

A navy blue ribbon with gold writing and gold wire fringe at the bottom. There is a metal plate at the top that depicts two hands clasping together.

Federated Engine Drivers & Firemen

For and against

A black badge with a white square in the center. In the square is the phrase Unions are the New Black.

Unions are the new black

Union democracy

Two green and gold beer cans standing side by side. There is a logo in the centre that reads 125 in celebration of 125 years of the United Trades and Labor Council of SA.

A council to unite all trades

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