​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