The museum, losing around $1m a year, has been closed by the Ballarat City Council. Its best-known exhibit, the 1854 Eureka Stockade flag, is to be rehoused in a new visitors centre in the city. Seems Australian democracy didn’t pay all that well and couldn’t attract the masses. This is regrettable but unsurprising given the overall tenor of our political discourse and disengagement of voters in all three levels of government.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
