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  • About
    • Australian Democracy
    • Key Objectives
    • Eureka Australia Committee
    • Eureka Week
  • Membership
  • Family Stories
    • Remembering John Joseph
    • Ancestor Stories >
      • Leigh Callinan
      • Maurice Hanrahan
      • Graeme McGregor
      • Margie O'Brien
      • Peter Lalor Philp
      • John Capp
  • Award
    • 2023 - Hugh De Kretser
    • 2023 - Phillip Moore
    • 2022 - STEVE BRACKS
    • 2019 - Tim Costello
    • 2018 - Adele Ferguson
    • 2017 - Patrick Dodson
    • 2016 - Phil Glendenning AM
    • 2015 - Father Frank Brennan
    • 2013 - Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E.)
    • 2011 - Dr. Anne Beggs-Sunter
    • 2010 - Margaret Rich
    • 2009 - John Molony
    • 2008 - Weston Bate
  • News & Events
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  • Eureka Melbourne Democracy Walking App
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​EUREKA DEMOCRACY AWARD: 2010 - Margaret Rich

Margaret Rich was Director of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (1980 - 2003) and she recieved the Eureka Democracy Award for her contribution of conserving the Eureka Flag, developing a Eureka collection and presenting and exhibiting the story of Eureka.
  • 1994 – Presented with the Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV Eureka 140 Exhibition – opened by Gough Whitlam
  • 1996 – Involved in the video production: Flying the Flag
  • 1996 – Acquired the Doudiet Eureka Sketchbook – Raising $245,000
  • 1997 – Presented with PROV travelling exhibition Eureka: The First Republic
  • 2001 – Acquired State Government funding to give the Eureka Flag its own special room and shrine in the gallery
  • 2003 – Acquired Sydney Nolan’s Eureka inspired drawings
  • 1998-2002 - Initiated and organized the Eureka Commemoration Dawn Lantern Walks
  • 1999 - Founding member of the Ballarat Reform League Inc. dedicated to marking, with memorials, key sites of democratic activism across Victoria’s goldfields
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2010 Eureka Democracy Award Winner: Margaret Rich
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