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Our collection captures the ideas, movements, people and events of Australian democracy.
Australians were asked to pick a song for the national anthem in 1977.
The start of the election process explained.
The 1928 referendum asked Australians to change the way finances were managed by the Commonwealth and states.
In 1999 Australia voted no to replacing the Queen as our head of state with a president.
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