Prime Ministers Avenue
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title:
Prime Ministers Avenue
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The Prime Ministers Avenue is a collection of busts of the first twenty-nine prime ministers of Australia. They are lined along an avenue of horse chestnuts at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, bronze casts mounted on polished granite pedestals. The politician Richard Crouch commissioned Wallace Anderson to create the first twelve busts in 1939; he pledged £1000 to maintain the Avenue in perpetuity. The Governor of Victoria, Winston Dugan, unveiled the first six busts on 2 March 1940. Anderson cre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Ministers_Avenue
date created:
2007-12-28T01:19:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T20:49:50Z
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