Badge, Labor for Democracy, Australia, 1920s

Note: This object includes white superiority messaging. Badge of the Australian Labor Party, circa 1920s. The badge reflects Labor's social democratic policies, but the white map of Australia also suggests that Labor historically opposed immigration and supported the White Australia Policy, although it now supports multiculturalism. The Australian Labor Party's logo still includes a white Southern Cross constellation on a light blue background.

Part of collection of badges collected by Jim Cooper, a veteran member of the Building Workers' Industrial Union (NSW Branch) and Union and political activist before his death in 1984. His daughter passed the badges on to Alf Zeeno, ex-secretary of the BWIU, with a request that they be donated to the museum. Metal badge in the shape of a map of Australia with a scroll beneath. The coloured parts of the badge are enamelled. In the centre of the white map of Australia is a light blue flag with a gold-coloured Southern Cross constellation. Beneath the map is a dark blue scroll with gold-coloured text.