Badiucao is a Chinese–Australian political cartoonist, artist and rights activist, whose work addresses a variety of social and political issues. In 2019 Badiucao won the Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award and the following year the Human Rights Foundation named him joint winner of the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. In 2023 Badiucao won a Walkley Award for cartooning.
The 1946 referendum led to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme and the beginnings of universal healthcare.
Our collection captures the ideas, movements, people and events of Australian democracy.
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In 1999 Australia voted no to replacing the Queen as our head of state with a president.
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