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Photograph: Betty Borchers, Joan Brown, Senator Lindsay Tanner and Cr Craig Fletcher

The photograph was taken at the launch of ALP candidate Catherine King's election campaign launch in 2010.

Catherine King is the federal ALP member for Ballarat and has been in office since 2001. She was a cabinet minister in the second Rudd ministry and is now part of the Shadow Cabinet.

Betty Borchers worked as a legal secretary. She was active in the Ballarat ALP and is the wife of Norm Borchers.

Joan Brown was a passionate and active member of the Labor Party in Ballarat.

Lindsay Tanner was a member of the House of Representatives holding the seat of Melbourne for the period 1993-2010. He resigned from politics prior to the 2010 election. He is a lawyer who has worked as an articled clerk and was State Secretary of the Clerks Union before entering politics. He was Minister for Finance during the Rudd-Gillard years of government.

Craig Fletcher is a former Mayor of Ballarat and became Chairman of the Ballarat Turf Club in 2014.

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