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Every person can contribute to democracy.
Explore meaningful ideas to create change.
Influencers are not a new phenomenon.
Our collection captures the ideas, movements, people and events of Australian democracy.
Explore our desire to collect things.
Help students understand media literacy with comics by Kate and Jol Temple, and David Conley.
The Museum of Australian Democracy acknowledges Australia's First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We respectfully acknowledge the role that First Nations people continue to play in shaping Australia's democracy. We also acknowledge the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the region in which MoAD is located.
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