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Prime Ministers Avenue
The Prime Ministers Avenue is a collection of busts of the Prime Ministers of Australia, located at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Ballarat, Victoria. The busts are displayed as bronze portraits mounted on polished granite pedestals. The 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, is the most recent addition to the Avenue. She publicly unveiled her bust on 9 October 2014, making her the second Prime Minister to unveil their own bust.〔http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-09/julia-gillard-unveils-her-sculpture-in-ballarat/5802838/〕
==History==
Richard Crouch, the original donor of the first six busts, was born in Ballarat in 1868. He was MP for Corio representing the Protectionist Party 1901–1909 and the Commonwealth Liberal Party 1909–1910, and was at the time the youngest member of the House of Representatives. He also served as MP for Corangamite under the Labor Party 1929–1931.
The first six busts were unveiled on 2 March 1940 by the Governor of Victoria, Sir Winston Dugan. Crouch also bequeathed funds for maintaining the project. It is claimed that Crouch's motivation for the collection was "his patronage and love of fine arts which he supported and endowed in many other ways and the influence of two parliamentary terms under the statesmen Barton, Deakin, Watson, Fisher and Scullin prompted him to return to Ballarat something of what it had given him".
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